McFerrin v. McFerrin

This is a divorce action instituted by the appellant, Daniel McFerrin, in the circuit court of Fayette County, Tennessee. The defendant, Martha Jane Walker McFerrin, filed an answer and the issues thus made were tried before the circuit judge without a jury. He dismissed the petition for lack of jurisdiction and the petitioner appealed.

The grounds for divorce set up in the petition are cruel and inhuman treatment, adultery, and willful or malicious desertion or absence without a reasonable cause for two whole years and more.

The evidence was not preserved by a bill of exceptions and the case…