GLENDENING v. GLENDENING

No. 3544.

206 A.2d 824 (1965)

Helen Crosby GLENDENING, Appellant, v. Harold Sanford GLENDENING, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 8, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Karr, Washington, D. C., with whom Glenn R. Graves, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Justin L. Edgerton, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


MYERS, Associate Judge.

Appellant-wife sought an absolute divorce on the ground of five years' voluntary separation without cohabitation. The trial court denied the divorce, holding she had failed to prove that the separation, although mutually voluntary in its inception, had continued to be voluntary on the part of appellee-husband for the entire critical five years prescribed by the statute. This appeal followed.

Both parties had had previous marital experience...

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