Niemann v. Seeling

I am constrained to dissent from the affirmation of the judgment in favor of the husband on his reconventional demand, seeking to justify his admitted abandonment of the wife on the ground of mental and physical cruelty; and in denying judgment to the wife on her main demand charging abandonment. The statement of the issues and record are fully set forth in the majority opinion.

The only testimony was given by the parties themselves, except that the wife’s sister testified that she kept a clean house, and that she was present when the husband came with a son by a previous marriage and moved…