Dwyer v. Dwyer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of Chancery in a matrimonial cause. The wife filed a bill for separate Maintenance. A few days later the husband filed a petition for divorce charging desertion. The trial court consolidated the causes, treating the wife’s suit as the main action and the husband’s suit as a counter-claim thereto. This couple were married in 1916. Two children, now adults, were born of the marriage.

The wife charges that her husband abandoned her, failed to adequately support her and that he was guilty of adultery…