Baxter v. Baxter

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pakkek, J.

This is a husband’s suit for divorce on the ground of desertion, and was tried before Vice-Chancellor Bentley, who in an oral decision held in substance that the wife had deserted her husband, that the desertion was willful and continued, but was not shown to be obstinate, in the sense contemplated by our statute as construed by a long line of decisions; and therefore denied the prayer of the petition.

We concur in that result.

The parties were married in 1909 and lived together for fourteen years, separating at the end of May, 1923. They have…