Smiley v. Smiley

PRESTON H. HUFFT, Judge Pro Tem.

The plaintiff-wife filed suit seeking a separation based on cruel treatment. The defendant-husband reconvened seeking a separation based on abandonment. After a trial on the merits the trial court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against defendant. Defendant appeals. We affirm.

The sole issue raised by defendant’s appeal is whether the trial judge erred in finding the wife free from fault in causing the separation.

Plaintiff and defendant were married in July of 1949, in Gulfport, Mississippi, and moved to New Orleans in 1950. There were no…