Legal Opinion
Cunningham v. Cunningham
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 25, 1959No. 2395PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
QUINN, Associate Judge.
This is an uncontested appeal from a judgment dismissing a wife’s suit for a limited divorce on the ground of cruelty. The wife’s testimony was that her husband had threatened her on many occasions and had perpetrated three assaults on her, which occurred in 1951, 1953, and 1958. After the first two incidents the wife apparently forgave her husband and resumed marital relations. She testified that in December 1958 appellee threatened her and subsequently left home in January 1959.
At the conclusion of the evidence, the court stated:
“I find as a fact that this woman…
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