De Ville v. De Ville

This is an appeal by the defendant from an interlocutory decree of divorce granted to the plaintiff in this action.

The plaintiff sought by his complaint herein, filed on the fourteenth day of November, 1916, to obtain a divorce from the defendant upon the ground of desertion. The defendant in her answer denied that she had deserted the plaintiff, but set up in a cross-complaint that the plaintiff had deserted her, had failed to supply her with the common necessaries of life, and had been guilty of treating her with extreme cruelty. The plaintiff denied these allegations of the cross-complaint.

The appellant’s contentions are that the evidence produced at the trial of the action was insufficient to sustain the find ings, or to justify the decision, that the decision is against law, and that errors in law were committed by the court.

The record in this case discloses the following facts: The plaintiff is a druggist. He was living with his wife on the twenty-second day of May, 1915, at Redondo Beach, California. His place of business was located at No. 336 South Main Street, in the city of Los Angeles. On the above date he told his wife that for business reasons they should…