Case ID: wright_1/html/0150-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SARAH WYATT v. JOSEPH WYATT.
    Divorce — wilful absence — alimony—custody of child.
    Wilful absence for more than three years, is cause for a divorce and alimony.
    Divorce. Cause — wilful absence.
    . These parties were married in Muskingum, about twelve years ago. After living together for some time, he left her, and after the lapse of a number of months, sent lor her to cometo him at Cincinnati. She went, and lived with him there about a year: he then sent her back to her father, with word that he would be up himself in a short time, but did not go for a number of months. When he did go, he staid only a short time, and left her again, and has been absent ever since, six or eight years, without in any way providing for, or corresponding with her. The last summer he was up from 150] *New Orleans, and may have seen her, but had no intercourse with her. There is one child.
   BY THE COURT.

Draw a decree for a divorce. Give her the 'custody of the child, and order him -to pay her $200 for alimony, and the costs, in sixty days, and in default, give her leave to issue execution.