Sargent v. Sargent

This is a petition for divorce, the grounds alleged therefor being willful desertion and gross misconduct. No appearance was entered by or in behalf of the respondent, it appearing from the record, however, that the citation was served on her by a disinterested person in Shelby, North Carolina. The matter was heard by a justice of the superior court sitting as a court of domestic relations, who thereafter denied and dismissed the petition. The case is before this court on the exception of the petitioner to this decision.

According to the evidence, the parties were married in South Carolina on…