Helvestine v. Helvestine

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from that portion of a decree in the Supreme Court of the District (now District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia) dismissing appellant’s cross-bill, praying for a divorce a vinculo and for general relief, on the ground that a divorce a mensa et thoro could not be' awarded without a specific prayer therefor. The parties will be designated as plaintiff and defendant.

On May 13, 1935, plaintiff, Pauline Helvestine, filed her bill charging her husband (defendant) with cruelty, drunkenness, and desertion, and seeking a decree of limited…