Kennedy v. Kennedy

Appellee, in February, 1877, filed his bill against appellant to obtain a divorce, for alleged desertion for more than two years. It appears the parties were married in 1842, and had lived together as man and wife until in October, 1874; that appellee then changed his residence from his old homestead to a new one, about three-fourths of a mile distant; that he, with the consent of his wife, conveyed his old homestead to her brother, Patrick Kenrick, in July, 1873, she joining in the conveyance, but when he came to move to his new home, in the autumn of the next year, she refused to go with…