Parmly v. Parmly

Lake, V. C.

The suit is for divorce on the ground of desertion. The charge is that the act of desertion consists in the refusal of the husband to have sexual intercourse with the wife.

The parties, were married August 2d, 1911. The husband is now forty-one; the wife thirty-eight. Immediately upon their marriage they went to live in a house which had been built by *491the husband in anticipation of the marriage, a bungalow in South Orange, and have continued to live there ever since. The year after the marriage a sister of petitioner, who is now I think fifteen years old, came to live with them. In…