Kerpelman v. Barrash

In March 1972, the appellant (plaintiff below), Leonard J. Kerpelman, Esquire, an attorney at law, represented Lily F. Barrash in a suit for separate maintenance that she brought *19against her husband, Frank M. Barrash, the appellee (defendant below) in the instant proceedings. In the suit she also asked for an allowance of counsel fees. The husband countered with a cross-bill in which he sought a divorce a mensa et thoro grounded upon allegations that the wife “did on or about February 29, 1972, and without any just cause or reason, abandon and desert . ..” him. On June 22, 1972, the case came…