METCALF v. METCALF

No. 8593.

142 F.2d 102 (1944)

METCALF v. METCALF.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided April 28, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lowry N. Coe, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Jeff Busby, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and EDGERTON and ARNOLD, Associate Justices.


PER CURIAM.

The District Court dismissed appellant's suit for a divorce, on the ground that she was a resident of New York and not of the District of Columbia. D. C. Code 1940, § 16 — 401. The evidence supports that finding. Appellant had been absent from her former home in the District since 1923. In the meantime she had been in China, Massachusetts, and New York. She had recently voted in New York. This, of course, involved a claim of residence there...

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