KELLER v. KELLER

No. 2699.

171 A.2d 511 (1961)

Gilbert Neff KELLER, Appellant, v. Drusilla Waite KELLER, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 12, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., with whom Mark P. Friedlander, Jr., and Blaine P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Jean M. Boardman, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


HOOD, Associate Judge.

This appeal arises from a suit for absolute divorce filed by appellant husband against appellee wife on the ground of desertion for two years.1 After hearing all the evidence the trial court dismissed the husband's action for divorce and ordered him to pay $3,000 to the wife's attorney as a counsel fee.

In February 1960 Mr. Keller filed the present suit against his wife. He alleged that the statutory two...

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