Powless v. Powless

A husband has the right to select the place where the family shall reside and if the wife unreasonably refuses to remove with him to the place of his selection her conduct constitutes unlawful desertion. Gray v. Gray, 232 Wis. 400, 287 N. W. 708. The question then is whether the trial court wás warranted in finding that the defendant’s refusal to remove to Oneida was unreasonable. Accompanying the husband’s right to choose the domicile of the family is his duty to support his wife and maintain her in a home in which she need have no fear that she will be dominated by his relatives and in…