Burnett v. Burnett

TERRELL, J.:

Petitioner sued respondent for divorce, alleging as ground therefor, habitual intemperance and extreme cruelty. The bill prayed for temporary relief by way of awarding the custody of the children to complainant upon such conditions as to the Court may seem meet, by granting complainant exclusive use and possession of the home for herself and the children and restraining the defendant from using the home as a dwelling place or from eating or sleeping there without complainant”s consent, and that if necessary he be ejected from the premises.

The chancellor granted the temporary…