Morris v. Morris

WELLS, Judge.

Defendant brings forward two assignments of error. She contends that the trial court erred in allowing plaintiff’s motion to strike her defenses to his action for an absolute divorce and in denying her a jury trial.

In her answer, defendant admitted all of plaintiff’s allegations necessary to obtain a divorce based on a one year separation of the parties under G.S. 50-6. Defendant argues that her allegations as to abandonment and indignities committed to her person constitute a defense to an action for absolute divorce. This argument has no merit under our present law. In 1977 the…