Walker v. Walker

This appeal is by a husband from a decree granting his wife a divorce a mensa on her cross bill in opposition to his bill for the same limited relief. Each bill was based on constructive desertion but the testimony on behalf of each showed, if anything, actual desertion. The cross bill was prompted by the chancellor’s refusal to admit testimony as to the wife’s claim to a share of the proceeds of the sale, ten years before, of a house owned by the couple.

The parties were married in 1930 and lived in Baltimore until 1944, when after the death of her mother, they sold their house and moved,…