CHRISTIAN v. CHRISTIAN

No. 3115.

187 A.2d 126 (1962)

William Phillip CHRISTIAN, Appellant, v. Jeanne Cimino CHRISTIAN, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided December 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Karr, Washington, D. C., with whom Edward P. Barrett, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Leon Shampain, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.


QUINN, Associate Judge.

In 1961 appellee brought this suit for separate maintenance. Appellant asserts that she was not a "wife" within the meaning of Code 1961, § 16-415 and therefore could not bring the suit. He appeals from the order of support.

The parties were married in Panama in 1933. During the ensuing years they frequently lived apart; he was a dentist employed by an oil company in South America and she was a night club singer and dancer. In...

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