Garza v. Garza

Plaintiff filed an action for divorce alleging extreme and repeated acts of cruelty by the defendant as the basis for the action. Defendant, although properly served, failed to appear and the plaintiff was granted a default judgment on June 16, 1969. At that time the trial judge heard testimony of both the plaintiff and the plaintiff’s sister-in-law. The plaintiff testified that defendant had been associating and corresponding with a younger man and that defendant had informed the plaintiff that she would no longer remain his wife when this man returned from Vietnam. The plaintiff further…