Lort v. Lort

PROCTOR, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of the District Court granting Edward Franklin Lort, appellee, an absolute divorce on the ground of desertion. 1

According to the evidence, Mrs. Lort left the home. She claimed to have done so> because of her husband’s suspected infidelity. She sued for divorce on that ground. About two months after leaving she returned to the home, but remained aloof from her husband without resumption of marital relations. Mr. Lort claimed that his wife broke their relations and left the home because of his insistence upon her discontinuing excessive use…