Etheridge v. Etheridge
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore City (Harlax, C. J.). The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBubke, J.
The hill in this ease was .filed by the wife against her husband, and prayed for a divorce a mensa &t thoro, and for alimony, temporary and permanent, and for counsel fees, etc. The grounds upon which the relief is prayed are abandonment and desertion, and cruelty. The defendant demurred to the entire bill, and from the order of the lower Court overruling the demurrer, he has brought this appeal.
Section 38, Article 16, Code 1912, relates exclusively to divorces a mensa et thoro, and enumerates the grounds upon which they may be granted. The jurisdiction to grant such a divorce is purely…
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