Crisco v. Crisco

JONES, Justice.

The facts giving rise to the dispositive issue presented on this appeal are essentially undisputed. Melvin Crisco left his household and his wife, Hilda Crisco, in early November, 1971. On November 3, 1971, she filed a divorce complaint against him on the grounds of cruelty, which suit was personally served on the defendant November 10, 1971. Mr. Crisco returned home shortly thereafter where he stayed until December 17, 1972, when he again moved out. An interlocutory decree pro confesso was entered December 18, 1972, and a final divorce decree was rendered December 27, 1972.…