Gates v. Gates

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

— Affirming’.

The parties to this proceeding are husband and wife, and each is seeking a divorce. They were married in 1897. By profession the husband, Sam C. Gates, is a dentist, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession for fifteen years or more. Their home was in Covington, Kenton county, Kentucky, but about two weeks' before the institution of this suit Mrs. Gates, without his knowledge of her purpose to do so, abandoned him and his home, and taking their only living child, a son about seven years of age, went to Owensboro, Kentucky, and…