Cralle v. Cralle
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Nottoway county, rendered 30th September, 1880, in suit of George A. Cralle against Louisa W. Cralle, for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, on account of her alleged wilful desertion of him for five years. She was a non-resident of this state when the suit was instituted in 1874, and the divorce was decreed. In 1876 she filed her petition, praying that the cause he reheard, and that alimony he decreed her.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Nottoway county, rendered 30th September, 1880, in suit of George A. Cralle against Louisa W. Cralle, for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, on account of her alleged wilful desertion of him for five years. She was a non-resident of this state when the suit was instituted in 1874, and the divorce was decreed. In 1876 she filed her petition, praying that the cause he reheard, and that alimony he decreed her. By the decree complained of alimony was allowed her, to-wit: twenty-five dollars a month, the amount of the allowance being estimated with reference to…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The appellant filed his hill in the court below for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, on the ground of desertion for a period exceeding five years by the wife, the defendant, who is the appellee here. The latter, being a non-resident of the state, was proceeded against by order of publication, and upon the hearing at the May term, 1874, a decree was entered in accordance with the prayer of the hill. The cause was thereupon retired from the docket, hut, in the language of the decree, “to he reinstated at any time, to the end that, from time to time…
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