Carpenter v. Carpenter

Lott, Justice.

This application is made by the plaintiff, with full knowledge of the facts set up in the defendant’s answer, charging her with dereliction in the discharge of her marital duties, and excusing his own conduct; and yet no affidavit is made in explanation or denial of these facts. Then, too, the acts of misconduct and abandonment set up in the complaint are, most of them, denied or explained by the defendant; and the principal allegations are explained by other parties who were witnesses to the transactions. Upon the whole, after a careful examination of the whole matter, I have…