Legal Opinion
Moore v. Moore
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided October 30, 1957No. 2044PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAYTON, Acting Judge.
A husband sued for divorce on the ground of “voluntary separation from bed and board for five consecutive years without cohabitation”. Code 1951, § 16-403. Defendant wife at first resisted the suit and filed a counterclaim demanding maintenance. At pretrial the possibility of reconciliation was found to be hopeless. A property settlement was- executed just before trial. The wife did not testify at the trial, and appeared only by her counsel.
The basic testimony of plaintiff, a retired army officer, was that when he returned from overseas duty in April 1946 his wife refused…
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- Shields v. Utah Idaho Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
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