McBride v. McBride

This is a bill filed by a husband against his wife, asking for a divorce a vinculo, upon the grpund that she had willfully and maliciously, and without reasonable cause, deserted the complainant for a period of more than two years before the institution of this suit. The wife made no defense, and an order pro confesso was taken against her.

Upon the trial of the case, the evidence clearly showed that the defendant did desert her husband more than two years before the present bill was filed, avowing at the time that she would not return to him again; that this was done in the face of earnest…