Plantt v. Plantt

Walter Henry Plantt filed the original petition for divorce in which he alleged that he was a preacher and that his wife had gone amongst the members of his congregation and had told them that he was “running around with lewd and loose women of his pastorate;” that he had to give up his church work on account of these accusations of his wife which were untrue; that he was ‘ ‘ an upright, righteous, God-fearing colored man, who has always tried to walk in the path of goodness and righteousness;” and that this conduct of his wife constituted cruel and inhuman treatment which entitled him to a…