Branyon v. Branyon

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal by respondent below from a decree in equity overruling her demurrer to her husband’s bill for divorce grounded on voluntary abandonment. The question presented is whether the allegations of the bill sufficiently charge a voluntary abandonment, which is one of the authorized grounds for divorce. Code-1940, Tit. 34, § 20, Subdiv. 3, as amended by Act No. 463, approved July 10, 1943,, Gen.Acts 1943, p. 425, provides as follows

“§ 20. The circuit court in equity has power to divorce persons from the bonds of matrimony, upon bill filed by the aggrieved party, for…