Therrell v. Therrell

MORRIS, Judge.

The initial problem we must deal with is to determine what relief the defendant wife is seeking. It appears that defendant intended to commence a cross-action for alimony without divorce in plaintiff’s suit for divorce from bed and board, as . is permitted by G.S. 50-16.8 (b) (3), although no specific language to that effect was used by the defendant in her pleadings or otherwise.

In the defendant’s answer to the complaint, under the caption “A Further Defense and Answer and Cross Action,” appear allegations to the effect that the plaintiff abandoned the defendant, that the…