McPherson v. Smith

Sam Robinson, Associate Justice.

Helen McPherson filed suit for divorce in the Woodruff Chancery Court alleging as grounds three years separation. The complaint also asked that her husband, W. E. McPherson, be required to render an accounting of a trust of which he was co-trustee. The case is here on a petition for a writ of prohibition. Petitioner is the defendant in the action filed below in chancery court.

Petitioner filed two motions to strike, both of which contained the allegation that the complaint stated two causes of action, namely, one for divorce and the second for a trust…