Cram v. . Cram
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotioN, or proceeding under 1292 of The Code, heard before Bynum, J., at October Term, 1894, of "Wake Superior Court.
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Civil aotioN, or proceeding under 1292 of The Code, heard before Bynum, J., at October Term, 1894, of "Wake Superior Court. The plaintiff, Mary E. Cram, commenced the action by a summons against the defendant, William C. Cram, made returnable to October Term, 1894, of said court and filed her complaint on the 20th October, 1894, in which she alleged the man-iage of herself and husband in New York, in October, 1871, the birth of a son, the defendant’s subsequent infidelity and desertion, his removal to North Carolina and his living with another as his wife. She further alleged that she had no…
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
The statute (The Coda, Sec. 1292) provides that “if any husband shall separate himself from his wife and fail to provide her with the necessary subsistence, according to his means and condition in life, etc., the wife may apply for a special proceeding to the Judge of the Superior Court for the County in which he resides, to have a reasonable subsistence secured to her and to the children of the marriage from the estate of the husband, etc.”
Postponing for the present the discussion of the sufficiency of the reasons offered by him for discontinuing the payment of an allowance to her,…
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