Vallandingham v. Vallandingham

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Beversing.

The parties to this action are husband and wife. They were married on May 13, 1919, in Carter county, Ky., and lived together until June 27, 1928, and on the following day the husband and appellant, Harlan Vallandingham, filed this action in the Carter circuit court against his wife, the defendant and appellee, Hazel Vallandingham, in which he sought a divorce from the bonds of matrimony between them upon the ground that “defendant has been guilty of such lewd and lascivious behavior on her part as proved her to be unchaste.” The petition…