Sheffield v. Sheffield

In February, 1952, Mary Cooke Kincaid Sheffield filed in the court below a bill of complaint against her husband, Lawrence Browning Sheffield, Jr., praying for a divorce on the ground of desertion. Personal service was had upon the defendant husband who appeared by counsel and filed an answer. The wife was granted a divorce a mensa which was merged into a divorce a vinculo by a decree entered on February 24, 1953. The latter decree required the husband to pay the sum of $90 each two weeks for alimony and support of the two minor children of the marriage whose custody w'as awarded to the wife.

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