Branham v. Branham

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree of divorce granted on the ground of the defendant’s desertion.

Plaintiff commenced the action for a divorce on two grounds, desertion and cruelty. Defendant filed a cross-complaint charging cruelty on the part of plaintiff and praying for a denial of the divorce and for separate maintenance. The trial court found in accordance with the allegations of the first cause of action set forth in plaintiff’s complaint that the defendant “without cause and against the wish of plaintiff willfully deserted and abandoned plaintiff,” and that the plaintiff was…