Gentry v. Gentry

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment denying any pecuniary award in granting the appellant, Mrs. Celia Gentry, a divorce from the appellee, Green Gentry.

The parties were married in 1918. Fourteen children were born to the union in a period of twenty-seven years. Eight of the children are living. The youngest child was about seven years old when the husband deserted his wife in 1952. Previous to the present suit the husband had sought an absolute divorce. It was denied, and judgment of divorce from bed and board was granted the wife on her counterclaim. In this judgment,…