Marcum v. Marcum

GRONER, Associate Justice.

This suit was originally brought by appellee against appellant for maintenance under the applicable District of Columbia statute. Title 14, § 75, D. C. Code 1920. After partial hearing on the merits, appellee, whom we shall call Mrs. Marcum, with leave of court amended her bill of complaint and prayed for a-limited divorce. The trial court passed a decree accordingly, and this appeal is from that decree.

We are met at the threshold with the question whether Mrs. Marcum w.as at the time the proceedings were begun a legal resident of the District of Columbia. Title 14,…