Carr v. Carr
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit iu equity, brought in July 1869, in the Circuit court of Loudoun county, by Thomas E. Carr, against his wife, Ascenith Ann Carr, for a divorce a mensa et thoro, and the recovery of the child of the marriage. The only ground on which the divorce was asked was desertion. This was admitted in the answer, and proved in the cause. The defendant insisted that she went with his consent.
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This was a suit iu equity, brought in July 1869, in the Circuit court of Loudoun county, by Thomas E. Carr, against his wife, Ascenith Ann Carr, for a divorce a mensa et thoro, and the recovery of the child of the marriage. The only ground on which the divorce was asked was desertion. This was admitted in the answer, and proved in the cause. The defendant insisted that she went with his consent. The parties, who seem to have been, raised within a half mile of each other, were married on the 20th of May 1867. A female child was born to them on the 7th of April 1868 ; and on the 12th of July…
1Opinion of the CourtBotjldin, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of Loudoun county, at its April ¿term, 1871, in a chancery suit instituted in said court by Thomas E. Carr, against Ascenith A. Carr, his wife, seeking a divorce a mensa et thoro, on the ground of abandonment or desertion by the wife; and seeking also to obtain the custody of his infant daughter, the only child of the marriage, who had been taken from her father’s home by the mother.
The divorce as prayed for was granted by the court; the child was remanded to the custody of the father, and alimony was denied to the wife.
From this decree an…
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