SURRATT v. SURRATT

No. 530.

139 S.E.2d 720 (1965)

263 N.C. 466

Mary Edith Wright SURRATT v. Glenn Marvin SURRATT.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 15, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ottway Burton, Asheboro, for plaintiff appellee.

Miller & Beck, Jerry M. Shuping, Asheboro, for defendant appellant.


DENNY, Chief Justice.

The sole question before us on this appeal is whether or not a wife may institute an action for the custody, support and maintenance of the minor children born of the marriage, and for alimony without divorce, and procure an in personam judgment against her defendant husband by service of process on her nonresident husband outside the State, pursuant to the provisions of G.S. § 1-104. The answer must be in the negative.

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