Horkheimer v. Horkheimer

Hatcher, Judge:

In this suit the plaintiff obtained a divorce a mensa on the ground of desertion. The defendant filed a cross-bill alleging neglect, cruelty and desertion, and asking a like divorce. This case is singularly free from the sordid details which so often encumber divorce records. The story is simply one of a filial tie which was stronger than conjugal duty. True, there is ‘ ‘ a woman in the case ’ ’. But the discord wrought by that woman was due to overweaning maternal instincts and not to the wiles of a wanton.

These parties were married in June, 1926, and came shortly afterwards…