Deck v. Deck

Theodore J. Deck, Jr. and Helen M. Deck, married in Baltimore in 1934, were divorced in 1970 by a decree of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, on the husband’s supplemental bill of complaint alleging that his wife constructively deserted and abandoned him on July 22, 1968.

We reverse that decree and remand the case with directions that the wife be granted the relief prayed in her cross-bill of complaint.

The case was instituted by the husband’s original complaint for an a mensa divorce filed on July 24, 1968, two days after the alleged constructive desertion by the wife. She responded with…