Case ID: wright_1/html/0139-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ANNE WHITE v. ROBERT S. WHITE.
    Divorce — wilful absence — alimony—custody of the children.-
    A divorce with alimony will be decreed to the wife, where the husband has left her with the children for more than three years without contributing to their support.
    Divorce. Cause — three years’ wilful absence.
    It was proven that several years after the marriage, the defendant left his wife and her children, without any apparent cause, and has *continued absent ever since, for more than three years, dur- [139 ing which time he has not in any way contributed to her or their support. She has sustained a good character.
   BY THE COURT.

A divorce is decreed. Give the wife the custody of the surviving child, and order him to pay $200 alimony and the costs, and in default let her take execution.