Stephenson v. Stephenson

Appellee filed this bill, charging abandonment and praying for a decree of divorce. Defendant demurred, and, her demurrer being overruled, has appealed.

The language of the amended bill — which in other respects we may take as concededly sufficient, since no other objection is alleged against it — is:

“As they lived together as man and wife in Morgan county, Ala., until the 23d day of March, 1921, when respondent voluntarily abandoned the bed and board of complainant, and never returned to live with him.”

In rather a casual way it is said that this is no direct charge of “voluntary abandonment”…