Simpson v. Simpson

716 S.W.2d 27 (1986)

Martha Ann Zeliff SIMPSON, Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

Robert Wilfred SIMPSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

September 4, 1986.

Rehearing Denied September 22, 1986.

R. Horton Frank, III, Dearborn & Ewing, Nashville, for plaintiff-appellee.

Mary Frances Lyle, Nashville, for defendant-appellant.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

Plaintiff's original complaint sought a divorce on the ground of irreconcilable differences but was later amended to assert cruel and inhuman treatment and abandonment and non-support. Defendant filed a pro se answer denying that he had been…