Wiggins v. Wiggins

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Reversing.

This suit was instituted in the chancery branch of the Jefferson circuit court by the appellant, Mildred Wiggins, seeking a divorce from her husband, Earl B. Wiggins, on the two. grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment and that of his cruelly beating and injuring her, upon which she prayed for a divorce, with custody of their infant son and alimony.

The charges of the petition were denied by the husband in his answer filed thereto, by which he further interposed a counterclaim, averring that his wife had left his home and abandoned him, without fault…