Coover v. Coover

Smith, J., dissents. Dissenting opinion at page 655 infra.

The trial judge (MacDaniel, J.) signed a decree on October 29, 1969, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County divorcing a mensa et thoro the appellee, Mae Elizabeth Coover, the plaintiff below (Mae), from Fred L. Coover, Jr., the appellant and defendant below (Fred), on the ground of Fred’s constructive desertion of Mae. The principal challenge to that decree is Fred’s contention that there was not sufficient evidence presented in the lower court to show that he was guilty of constructive desertion. Fred also contends that the trial…