Cook v. Cook

The parties were married in 1912 and cohabited until 1916, when the defendant deserted the petitioner. On April 27th, 1917, the petitioner commenced a suit for divorce on the ground of adultery, wherein a citation was issued and returned as having been served personally on the defendant. In that suit the defendant was apprehended under authority of a writ of ne exeat, and released from custody on January 22d 1918, since which time no further steps have been taken in the cause. Without dismissing, or in any other way terminating, the proceedings just referred to, the petition in this cause was…