Pippin v. Pippin

CODY, Justice.

This is an appeal by the husband, plaintiff below, from the action of the court in sustaining a plea in abatement by the wife, defendant below, to his petition for divorce.

The husband has been a soldier in the United States Army by voluntary enlistments for the past seventeen years. He first enlisted in New Orleans in 1928. At the time he so enlisted he lived, with his parents in Hattiesburg, Miss. He was stationed in Presidio County in 1932, when he married appellee. He filed'his petition for divorce in the District Court of Walker County on May 25, 1945. He alleged that he had…