Wakefield v. Wakefield

Helen Wakefield filed her petition seeking a decree of separate maintenance from defendant Ralph W. Wakefield, alleging extreme cruelty and nonsupport as grounds therefor. Without objection plaintiff was subsequently permitted to amend her petition to pray for an absolute divorce. Contrary to defendant’s contention, her petition did not rely upon desertion as a ground for relief. In response to defendant’s motion to make plaintiff’s original petition more definite and certain, she did set forth at length in her amended petition two occasions when defendant left her and the children several…