Burns v. Burns

Suit by Mildred A. Burns, against Miles S. Burns, her husband, for divorce.

The complaint charges cruel treatment, failure to provide support, and habitual drunkenness, as the causes for which she asks the divorce. This latter charge, we may observe, was not proved on the trial. The complaint does not aver, that the plaintiff had left her husband, nor was there any evidence on the trial tending to show that she *260had done so, but, on the contrary, while there is no evidence directly to the point, enough appears incidentally to raise the inference that she still dwells with him.

The question…