Case ID: ala_248/html/0430-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      LAWSON, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

27 So.2d 877
    WHATLEY v. WHATLEY.
    6 Div. 479.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Nov. 21, 1946.
    Fred Fite, of Hamilton, for appellant.
    Fite and Fite, of Hamilton, for appellee.
   LAWSON, Justice.

The bill in this case was filed by the wife, appellee, against her husband seeking -a divorce, temporary, and permanent alimony, and solicitor’s fees. The appeal is from a decree overruling a demurrer to the bill.

Complainant seeks a’divorce on the ground of voluntary abandonment. The averments of the bill as to such abandonment are sufficient under the statute. § 20, Title 34, Code 1940, as amended, Act No. 463, approved July 10, 1943, General Acts 1943, page 425; Campbell v. Campbell, 246 Ala. 107, 19 So.2d 354, 155 A.L.R. 130; Nelson v. Nelson, 244 Ala. 421, 14 So.2d 155; Stephenson v. Stephenson, 213 Ala. 382, 105 So. 183.

The demurrer was general to the bill as a whole and since the bill clearly contains equity in so far as it seeks a divorce, the demurrer was properly overruled. If the bill contains equity in any of its aspects, -a demurrer to the bill as a whole is properly overruled. Roberts et al. v. Ferguson, 226 Ala. 594, 147 So. 894; Oden v. King, 216 Ala. 504, 113 So. 609, 54 A.L.R. 1413; Massey et al. v. Massey, 246 Ala. 396, 20 So.2d 790; Robbins v. Schaefer, 242 Ala. 353, 6 So.2d 415.

The decree is due to be affirmed. It is so ordered.

Affirmed.

GARDNER, C. J., and FOSTER and STAKELY, JJ., concur.