X. v. X.

Speakman, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

The defendant was duly summoned and an appearance was entered for her, by attorney upon the record. She neither appeared in person, or by attorney, at the hearing of the cause.

The parties were married December 16, 1925, and since that date had continued to live in the same home at least, until October 29, 1945. For two or three months prior to that date, they did not occupy the same bed.

The plaintiff, after having testified that during the first seventeen years of his marriage to the defendant she did at all times persistently deny him sexual…