Hays v. Hays

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This appeal is by Mrs. Erna Stafford Hays from a judgment of the district court declaring Article 160 of the Louisiana Civil Code, which authorizes the court to award alimony under certain circumstances to the wife, to be unconstitutional as violative of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 2, of the Louisiana Constitution of 1921.

Guy F. Hays instituted a suit in 1949 at his domicile in the Parish of Evangeline for a divorce from his wife, Mrs. Erna Stafford Hays, on the ground that they had lived separate and apart for more than…