Chestnut v. Chestnut

This was a proceeding by bill on the equity side of the Morgan circuit court, instituted by Alexander B. Chestnut, complainant, and against Emily Chestnut, defendant, for a divorce, on the allegation of wilful desertion by her.

The defendant duly appeared and put in her answer to the bill, denying the charge, and alleges a promise by complainant to aid her in raising her minor children by a former husband, and a breach of that promise by driving her children from the house and refusing to permit them to return. She also charges complainant with improper intimacy with a loose woman known as…