Savell v. Savell

This appeal is the aftermath of an original decree of divorce granted the husband, while awarding their children to the wife to be kept in the home of her father, and requiring both husband and wife to contribute equal stated amounts monthly for their support and maintenance. Prom time to time, petitions and cross-petitions were filed for modifications of the first decree, and twice the wife obtained citations against the husband for contempt. Each time he was exonerated by the chancellor.

It is difficult for us to justify this action by the evidence in the record, but since the wife took no…