Slusser v. Slusser

*8OPINION

By DOYLE, J.

Burge B. Slusser filed an action for divorce from his wife, Marietta, in the Court of Common Pleas of Summit County, and alleged, inter alia, the statutory ground of gross neglect of duty. The wife, in addition to an answer pleading a general denial, entered her cross-petition for “temporary and permanent alimony” on the ground of extreme cruelty. A reply was then filed which pleaded a general denial to the cross-petition. So stood the pleadings when the case came on for trial.

At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court granted a divorce to the plaintiff on the ground…