Davis v. Davis

GOODWYN, Justice.

The wife brings this appeal from a final decree of divorce in favor of the husband on the ground of voluntary abandonment. The decree also awards the husband custody of the parties’ twelve-year old daughter, “subject to the defendant’s right of visitation at reasonable times and places,” and the use and benefit of the parties’ jointly owned home in Gadsden “as a home for the minor child of the parties * * * for such time as the minor child shall attain the age of twenty-one years, marry or become self supporting.”

The wife filed a cross-bill seeking a divorce on the ground of…