GAINES v. GAINES

No. 9232.

157 F.2d 521 (1946)

GAINES v. GAINES.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided September 23, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James E. Shifflette, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Joseph Sitnick, of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Morris Benson, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and WILBUR K. MILLER and PRETTYMAN, Associate Justices.


WILBUR K. MILLER, Associate Justice.

Thelma M. Gaines sued her husband, Charles H. Gaines, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia for a limited divorce on the ground of cruelty, and for alimony pendente lite. Her complaint described her husband as a resident of Virginia and process was served on him in that commonwealth by a deputy marshal who certified in his return the time and place of service and that the husband was then "a non...

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