Downs v. Downs

LAWSON, Justice.

The appellant, Mrs. Clara Louise Downs, filed her bill in the circuit court of Mobile County, in equity, against her husband, Fred Lynch Downs, seeking a.divorce from bed and board (a mensa et thoro), alimony, adjustment of property rights, and counsel fees.

Complainant charged in her bill that respondent was guilty of adultery. The respondent husband in his answer, while denying that he was guilty of adultery, charged that complainant had committed acts of adultery with her former husband and also charged that she was guilty of cruelty. The respondent made his answer a…