Spence v. Spence

The plaintiff and defendant were married. They lived together as man and wife until 1923. During that year Mrs. Spence made a prolonged visit to relatives in Illinois and elsewhere. While she was absent from the state her, husband instituted suit against her, as an absentee, for a separation from bed and board, alleging, as grounds for the separation, cruel treatment'and an abandonment. She was cited through a curator ad hoc. Some time after this suit was brought the husband filed a supplemental petition alleging adultery on the part of his wife and prayed for an absolute divorce on that…