Jewell v. Jewell

WASSERSTROM, Judge.

The issue presented here is whether the court below properly ordered a default divorce in favor of the respondent (hereinafter referred to as the “wife”) upon the failure of the appellant (hereinafter referred to as the “husband”) to appear for the taking of his deposition. This is merely the culminating episode in a serial of litigation between these parties. The specif ic circumstances giving rise to the legal problem now at issue cannot be fairly considered except in the context of the mass of controversy which had preceded.

The history of this litigation began in 1963…