White v. Broussard

FOURNET, Justice.

John Thomas White, Jr., alleging that his wife, Nellie Broussard White, abandoned him and their fifteen month old son without cause on November 4, 1934, seeks a divorce from her in this suit and the custody of the child.

In her answer the defendant generally denied all of the allegations of the petition but specifically averred that her departure from the matrimonial domicile had been precipitated by a severe beating given her by her husband, the culmination of continued harsh and cruel treatment on his part; that she had not abandoned her child on this occasion but had,…