Lakey v. Lakey

This is an appeal by Mrs. Etta Pierce Lakey from a decree of the Chancery Court of Quitman County denying her a divorce from appellee, B. S. Lakey. The bill was based on a charge of habitual cruel and inhuman treatment. The evidence wholly failed to comply with the prerequisites to a divorce on that ground, and the chancery court was correct in denying it. Amis, Divorce and Separation in Mississippi, (1935), Secs. 103-129A. For the same reason there was no error in denying attorney’s fee, suit money, and alimony.

Appellant argues that, even though she was not entitled to a divorce, still under…