Leonard v. Leonard

360 So.2d 710 (1978)

Gladys Ann LEONARD, a minor, etc., et al.

v.

Bernice LEONARD.

77-102.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 23, 1978.

John E. Enslen, Wetumpka, for appellants.

George P. Howard of Howard & Dunn, Wetumpka, for appellee.

SHORES, Justice.

Darcus Welcher and Leroy Wilcox were married in the State of Georgia in 1946. Darcus left Leroy in 1947 and returned to Alabama, but they were never divorced insofar as the record shows. Leroy Wilcox died in Georgia in 1975.

While living in Eclectic, Alabama, in 1952, Darcus met Carl Leonard and, according to her testimony, entered into an adulterous…