Henderson v. Henderson

This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of Chancery awarding a divorce to the petitioner husband based on the desertion of the wife and dismissing the wife's counter-claim which alleged desertion on the part of the husband, the period of desertion alleged being the same in each case.

The husband, a farmer in Sussex County, married the appellant in August, 1934. Early in 1936 various differences arose between them, concerning, among other things, a deposit of money at the bank. The husband says that to compose this difference he withdrew the sum of $1,100, approximately one-half of the…