Anders v. Anders

ADAMS, J.:

This appeal brings for review a decree disallowing a divorce to the appellant husband on the ground of desertion.

The parties were married in 1933. The wife abandoned the home in October of 1936 and filed a statutory suit for separate maintenance. Section 65.10, Florida Statutes, 1941. That suit terminated by a final decree in December, 1937, in favor of the husband. In the separate maintenance suit, it was the wife’s contention, based upon legal advice, that she was justified in remaining separate and apart from her husband unless he would force his sister to depart from the home.…