Clem v. Clem

Plaintiff brought this action to secure a divorce upon the ground of desertion. Defendant by her answer denied the allegations of the complaint as to desertion, and affirmatively, by way of cross-complaint, sought to secure a judgment for separate maintenance against plaintiff on the ground of desertion. Issue was joined on the affirmative allegations of the cross-complaint by reply.

A trial was had before the court without a jury. The court found that the parties were married; that the plaintiff had been a resident of the state of Montana for more than a year; that prior to 1924 the parties…