St. John v. St. John

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

— Reversed with, directions.

The appellant, Lawrence Robert St. John, a Captain in the United .States Army, filed this action in the Jefferson Circuit Court seeking a divorce from the appellee, Barbara St. John, on the ground of abandonment. The appellee entered her appearance to the action but did not contest it. Proof was taken and the chancellor was of the opinion that the evidence sufficiently established abandonment but dismissed the petition on the ground that appellant had not been a continuous resident of this state for a year next before the…