Petta v. Petta

Victoria Petta filed a complaint against her husband, Frank Petta, charging desertion and adultery and asking for separate maintenance. The husband filed an answer to the complaint, also a counterclaim, in which counterclaim he charged desertion and asked that the marriage be dissolved. Plaintiff appeals from certain parts of the decree entered in the cause. Defendant has not appealed from any part of the decree and he here defends the decree.

The complaint charges that defendant, without any reasonable cause and without fault on the part of plaintiff, deserted her continuously from 1938 to…