Easterling v. Easterling

Jordan, Justice.

This is an appeal from the order denying the husband’s motion to dismiss the wife’s suit for divorce for lack of jurisdiction and holding him in contempt of court for failure to comply with the order for temporary alimony of $75 per week.

The record shows that appellant and appellee lived in a trailer home in Gwinnett County from October, 1971, until July 30, 1972, at which time appellee alleges she was severely beaten by the appellant, requiring her hospitalization for 9 days. While in the hospital on August 8, 1972, she filed a divorce action in Gwinnett Superior Court and…