NEUMAN v. NEUMAN

No. 9604.

377 A.2d 393 (1977)

Emily Mann NEUMAN, Appellant, v. Robert Henry NEUMAN, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 18, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Sager of the bar of the State of New York, New York City, pro hac vice, by special leave of the court, with whom Jane Dolkart was on the brief, for appellant.

Charles H. Mayer, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before NEBEKER, YEAGLEY and MACK, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This case presents an initial question of estoppel regarding an attempted appeal in forma pauperis by the wife from a divorce decree in favor of the husband. He remarried after notice that her effort to appeal had been abandoned in the face of a challenge to pauper status. The prejudice in the case arises from failure of service of appellate court pleadings on counsel for the husband. While we generally would be free to dismiss an appeal...

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