Latham v. Latham
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was argued at Richmond, but was decided at Wytheville. It was a suit in equity in the corporation court of Lynch-burg, brought in February, 1877, by C. Fannie Latham, by her next friend, against her husband, Robert F. Latham, for a divorce.
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This case was argued at Richmond, but was decided at Wytheville. It was a suit in equity in the corporation court of Lynch-burg, brought in February, 1877, by C. Fannie Latham, by her next friend, against her husband, Robert F. Latham, for a divorce. The original bill prayed for a divorce a mensa et thoro, on the ground of cruelty and desertion, and by an amended bill she prayed for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii on the same ground and the ground of adultery of the defendant, and in both bills she prayed that the child of the marriage, a boy, between two and three years old, might be placed…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The appellant filed her bill in the corporation court for the city of Lynchburg, asking for a divorce a mensa et thoro from the appellee. Cruelty and desertion are alleged as the grounds of the application. Both are positively denied by the appellee in his answer. Subsequently the appellant filed an amended bill, in which she not only reiterates the charges of cruelty and desertion, but avers lewdness of conduct and ac-iltery on the part of the appellee. The latter filed his answer, denying the charges jn the most positive and explicit terms. In the progress of the suit numerous depositions…
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