Bannister v. Bannister

On March 17, 1942, the appellant, Leland Wesley Bannister, filed a bill of complaint in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, Maryland, against his wife, Hattie Fay Bannister, appellee, in which he asked for a decree annulling their marriage. An answer was filed to which the appellant demurred. Thereupon an amended bill was filed in which the prayers for relief asked (a) that the marriage between the appellant and the appellee be declared void ab initio, and (b) for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii. The answer was refiled, and the appellant again demurred to the answer. The court overruled…