Jardes v. Jardes

HARDY, Judge.

Plaintiff wife instituted this action for a separation, custody of the minor children of the marriage with defendant and other pertinent relief, and she appeals from judgment in favor of defendant rejecting her demands.

The principal basis for plaintiff’s action was presented by her allegation that defendant husband had abandoned the matrimonial domicile. This allegation was denied in defendant’s answer, which asserted a recon-ventional claim for separation on the grounds of cruel treatment and abandonment.

On trial of the case the only witnesses were plaintiff wife and her mother.…