JOHNSON v. JOHNSON

No. 2948.

179 A.2d 720 (1962)

Gordon M. JOHNSON, Appellant, v. Corlan D. JOHNSON, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided April 13, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira M. Lowe, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Daniel I. Sherry, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before QUINN, Associate Judge, CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code, § 11-776(b), and MYERS, Associate Judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, sitting by designation.


CAYTON, Acting Judge.

A husband appeals from a decision in favor of his wife in an action for separate maintenance, and questions the sufficiency of the evidence.

The trial judge found that the husband had frequently become intoxicated and quarrelsome, and violent toward his wife, and had struck her on several occasions; that this caused the wife to become nervous and unable to sleep and required her to seek medical and psychiatric treatment; and that the...

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