Jones v. Jones

A husband appeals from a decree of a chancellor, dismissing his bill for a divorce a vinculo, filed on the ground of abandonment. The case presents a situation where the claimed abandonment was the refusal to continue marital relations while the parties were living in the same house. In some jurisdictions it is required that such abandonment be notorious and known to the community in which the parties live. That is not the law of this State, but the fact that it is the law elsewhere emphasizes the difficulties of the ordinary proof in such cases. It is very easy to set up such a claim if the…