Wigzell v. Wigzell

This is a suit in which the husband seeks a separation from his wife on the ground of alleged public defamation.

The defense is, in effect, that the wife loves and respects her husband; did not mean to, and did not in fact, defame him; that she desires his return to the matrimonial domicile from which he has absented himself; and is ready to receive him as a dutiful wife whenever he does so.

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The facts are that on the night of January 28, 1925, plaintiff left the common dwelling in Lake Charles for a trivial cause, the result of his not being quite himself that evening; and did not return. On…