Meyer v. Meyer
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, pronounced March 23, 1901, in a suit in chan-cery wherein appellant was the complainant, and the appellee was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
Otto Meyer, spoken 'of in this record as Dr. Meyer, on the 19th of May, 1896, filed his bill, in the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, against Lizzie H. Meyer, his wife, praying a divorce from the latter a mensa et toro, upon the ground of desertion. To this bill defendant made no answer, and the court, by its decree of May 23, 1896, granted the plain*229tiff tHe divorce, but made no disposition of the infant daughter of the parties, then but a little over a year old, leaving her in the care and custody of the mother. In September, 1896, by consent of parties, by counsel, the cause…
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