Young v. Young

Robins, J.,.(dissents). I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion in this case. The lower court* refused to permit appellant to prove, as a defense to appellee’s suit for divorce, that, after appellee deserted her he openly lived in adultery with another woman. The majority, in approving this holding of the lower court, is striking down the defense of recrimination in a divorce case brought under- what is ordinarily called the “three-year separation law.”

Since the passage of Act No.. 167 of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas of 1937, approved March 1, 1937, and the…