Humes v. McIntosh

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Lusarah Humes McIntosh instituted this suit against her husband John McIntosh, to whom she was married in 1937, for an absolute divorce on the ground of adultery, alleging that he was living in open adultery with a woman in the City of New Orleans. After trial on the merits there was judgment dismissing her suit, and she has appealed.

At the trial the husband admitted his illicit relations with the woman named in the petition, and it was established that of these relations two children were born, one in 1943 and the other in 1946. The instant suit, filed on February 8, 1951,…