Tarr v. Tarr

Joseph Sidney Tarr and Alice M. Tarr, his wife, were married on March 31st, 1920, and lived together for over eight years. On November 13th, 1931, the husband filed a bill of complaint for an absolute divorce on the ground of abandonment and desertion by his wife. In her answer the wife categorically denied the material allegations of the bill of complaint, and, a few days after her answer, she filed a cross-bill in which she charged her husband with abandonment and desertion, alleged she was without means of supporting herself and meeting the costs and expenses of the litigation between her…