Wells v. Wells
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from that part of a decree in a divorce suit, rélating to the custody of a ’ child of the parties.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
Court:
The appellee, Mrs. Louise C. Wells, filed her bill for divorce from her husband, the appellant, Eenton G. Wells, on the *39316th of January, 1897, upon the alleged ground of desertion and failure, on the part of her husband, to furnish maintenance for herself and child; and she prayed for alimony and the custody of her child, a boy some three years and a few months old. The appellant, the husband, answered the bill, denying the charge of desertion and failure to supply means of support to his wife and child, and averred that the wife was then engaged as a clerk in a store in the city of…
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