EATON v. EATON

No. 1992.

134 A.2d 344 (1957)

Betty S. EATON, Appellant, v. Arthur Eugene EATON, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided July 18, 1957.

Motion to Modify Denied July 23, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry A. Calevas, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

No appearance for appellee.

Before HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code, § 11-776(b).


QUINN, Associate Judge.

This is an uncontested appeal from a judgment dismissing a wife's suit for a limited divorce on the grounds of cruelty. The wife's testimony was that the husband perpetrated three separate assaults on her. After each of the first two assaults, she apparently forgave him and resumed marital relations, but after the third she separated from him. There was evidence corroborating her testimony as to the first two assaults, but none as to the third...

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