Wood v. Wood

Rose, Judge:

Newton S. Wood instituted, against his wife, Hazel Wood, in the Circuit Court of Randolph County, a suit for divorce in which he sought, also, the custody of their only child, a son aged ten years. The defendant by answer denied the plaintiff’s charges and, by way of cross-bill, asked for a divorce from the plaintiff, the custody of the child, alimony, a decree for $175 for money lent to the plaintiff, and a “settlement” of property rights in cer tain real estate claimed to be owned jointly by the plaintiff and defendant.

The court awarded the plaintiff a divorce and the custody of…