Burton v. Burton

DRAPEAU, J.*

This is an appeal from an order setting aside a final judgment of divorce.

The complaint was by the husband against the wife for desertion. (Not for cruelty, as stated in appellant’s brief.)

Service was by publication, but the defendant wife received copies of the complaint and summons through the mail, at her home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She did not appear and contest the action.

Interlocutory decree of divorce is dated July 6, 1955; final judgment is dated July 11, 1956.

*370The order vacating the final judgment is dated February 28, 1957.

No testimony was taken by the court, and the…