Shepard

The plaintiff sued for a divorce from the defendant upon the grounds of extreme cruelty. The complaint alleged that the parties intermarried in June, 1909; that they resided in the county of Humboldt for the statutory period; that two children were born of the marriage; and that they separated on the 18th of February, 1922. The charge of cruelty found in the complaint related to the conduct of the defendant regarding his association with other women, and it was alleged that during the period of two years last past defendant had received many letters of a loving and affectionate nature from many women other than plaintiff; that he continually flirted with and made love to other women, and that in the month of November, 1921, he. stated to plaintiff that he had certain relations of an immoral character with two women. Plaintiff prayed for an interlocutory decree and the custody of her two children. No answer was filed on the part of the defendant, and his default having been entered, the cause came on for trial on the allegations of the complaint just referred to. The testimony of the plaintiff was plain and unambiguous and clearly established the allegations of cruelty. She…