Burkett v. Burkett

After a hearing on oral evidence, the Trial Court granted the husband’s petition for divorce on the ground of wilful desertion by his wife for two whole years preceding institution of the suit. On Mrs. Burkett’s appeal, with assignments of error based on the evidence, the judgment in favor of the husband was affirmed by the Court of Appeals after the husband’s motion to strike the bill of exceptions was sustained.

One of the grounds assigned in support of the husband’s motion to strike the bill of exceptions was that this instrument did not affirmatively show that it was signed by the trial…