Peed v. Peed

The appeal in this case is from a decree denying a divorce to a wife and also to a husband on his cross-bill, each charging desertion and cruelty. Both parties appealed, but the wife did not press her appeal. The husband’s appeal also challenges the award of support for the two children, whose custody was given to the wife, as excessive.

The gravamen of the husband’s complaint is that, although he continued to occupy the same dwelling until shortly before the trial and for more than 18 months after the alleged cessation of marital relations, the wife deserted him by her persistent refusal to…