Smith v. Smith

Mattie Stoner Smith, the defendant in error, filed a bill for separate maintenance in the circuit court of Macon county, at the January term, 1914, against the plaintiff in error, Thomas W. Smith. She afterwards filed an amended bill for separate maintenance, charging the plaintiff in error with drunkenness, ill-treatment and a failure to support her and their three children. The prayer of the amended bill was that the defendant might be compelled to provide separate maintenance for the complainant and said three children; that he be compelled to deliver possession of the premises occupied by…