Davis v. Davis

— The plaintiff commenced this action by filing a complaint for separate maintenance, to which the defendant cross-complained for annulment or, in the alternative, for a divorce. The case was sub mitted on those issues, but no evidence was introduced in support of the defendant’s allegations upon which he based his claim for annulment or divorce. A decree of annulment, however, was entered, based entirely on an oral stipulation of the parties in open court that such decree should be entered. At that time, the court gave the plaintiff judgment against the defendant for two thousand dollars as…