Baker v. Baker

SMITH, Acting Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a final decree dismissing plaintiff’s amended bill of complaint. It appears from the amended bill that Charles W. Baker and Effie I. Baker were married in September, 1912, at Chambersburg, Pa., and immediately thereafter took up their residence in Martinsburg, W. Va. There the husband purchased and equipped out of his own means a hotel, which in conjunction with a confectionery and restaurant business was thereafter operated by himself and wife. The moneys and profits derived from the hotel, restaurant, and confectionery business were…