Watts v. Watts

(dissenting) :

I respectfully dissent.

After the wife left the matrimonial domicile in Lincoln Parish an action was tried in the District Court for that Parish in which the Court found the wife did not have grounds for a separation from bed and board based upon cruel treatment.

This court, in Berry v. Berry, 300 So.2d 246 (2d Cir. 1974) declared:

“LSA-C.C. Art. 39 provides that a married woman has no other domicile than that of her husband and LSA-C.C. Art. 120 provides that the wife is bound to live with her husband and to follow him wherever he chooses to reside. It is well established,…