Hodges v. Hodges

Bussey, Justice.

This case is one of domestic discord in which the wife, respondent here, sued the appellant husband for divorce on the grounds of habitual drunkenness and physical cruelty and, in connection therewith, sought to recover alimony, costs, attorneys fees and a property settlement, including the declaration of a resulting trust as to a one-half interest in the home in which the parties lived prior to the separation, title to said home being in the husband.

The cause was referred to the Master of Greenwood County who, after taking rather voluminous testimony, concluded that the wife…