Henderson v. Henderson

GARDNER, Justice.

The bill is by the wife for separate maintenance. Upon submission of the cause for final decree on pleadings and proof, she was denied relief.

At the time of the marriage, on October 17, 1931, she was thirty-nine and the husband forty-eight years of age. She was then earning $40 a week. His earnings were shown at the trial to be $83 per month, out of which he cared for his mother and father in the house in which he lived. The house, however, was not his own, but was in the name of his father, and the husband paid $25 monthly on the home mortgage indebtedness.

Complainant knew…