Nave v. Nave

Action for divorce and alimony by the wife against the husband, under the statute of 1843, alleging cruel and inhuman treatment as the ground of divorce. The husband answered, denying the charges in the bill, and setting up, by way of cross bill, abandonment by the wife, for which he claimed a divorce. The Circuit Court decreed a divorce on the wife’s bill, and awarded alimony, from which the husband appeals.

Two questions are made in this Court, one as to the admissibility of the plaintiff’s depositions, the other upon the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the decree.

The plaintiff’s…