Parker v. Parker

The plaintiff and the defendant herein were married in November, 1902. In 1912 the plaintiff sued the defendant for divorce on the sole ground of wilful neglect. The complaint alleged the weekly earnings of the defendant and that there was, as the issue of said marriage, a minor child, Gladys Madeline Parker, aged seven years. The prayer was for a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony; that the plaintiff have the care and custody of the minor child and “for such other and further relief as to the court may seem proper.” There was no specific prayer for alimony or for maintenance of the…