Legleu v. Legleu

ELLIS, Judge.

Before this court is a suit for separation on the ground of abandonment filed by the wife against her husband. The abandonment is alleged to have occurred December 1, 1963, without lawful cause or adequate provocation. On that date the husband did leave the matrimonial domicile in East Baton Rouge Parish. The plaintiff also asks for custody of the three minor children and for support.

The husband’s answer alleged that the actual abandonment is insufficient legal ground to support a judgment of separation in the wife’s favor because he had lawful and just cause to leave the…