Howes v. Howes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Brogan, Chief-Justice.

This is an appeal by a wife from a decree awarding a divorce to the petitioner-husband on the ground of her desertion. A cross-petition by the wife charging the husband with desertion was dismissed.

The parties, Ered Howes and Grace Howes, were married in 1913, in this state. The husband has continuously resided here; the wife, since 1924, has not. They have one child, born in 1921. Erom the date of her marriage, and up to the time the child was born, the wife went to business. In the year 1924 the wife, with the consent, if not at…