Courson v. Courson

In this case the chancellor gave the husband a decree of absolute divorce from the wife on the ground of her adultery. She appeals, urging that the testimony was insufficient to permit a finding of adultery and that even if adultery properly was found, the husband cannot be given a divorce under the rule of recrimination, it having been shown in the case (although not pleaded) that he was guilty of desertion for over eighteen months — an offense which would have permitted the wife to obtain an absolute divorce from him.

About a year after the parties were married, the wife left their home…