Dowden v. Dowden
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Action by Minnie Dowden against A. C. Dowden. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Plaintiff sues her husband for separation from bed and board.
The grounds are cruel treatment, such as renders their further living together insupportable, defamation, and abandonment.
The parties were married in December, 1899, in Shreveport. The five years following their marriage they lived in Little Rock, and then came to live at the boarding house of plaintiff’s mother in Shreveport. They have one child, a girl, five years of age at the time of the filing of this suit in June, 1906. Defendant is an employé in the railroadshops in Shreveport. Cn the 24th of December, 1904, because of his…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hill v. HillSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1904
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