Selvy v. Selvy

Kenna, Judge:

This is a suit for divorce brought in the circuit court of Wetzel County by Myrt Selvy against J. A. Selvy. The ground alleged is cruelty. J. A. Selvy filed his answer and cross-bill denying specifically all of the material averments of the bill of complaint and seeking a divorce on his part on the ground of desertion. The trial chancellor heard the proof in open court, decreed a divorce from bed and board in favor of the plaintiff and further decreed that the plaintiff retain “as a part of her share of the property of the plaintiff and defendant” a certain piece of property…