Barclay v. Barclay

This is a bill filed by the appellee against her husband, the appellant, for a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of desertion, and the appeal is from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, granting the divorce, and awarding to the appellee byway of permanent alimony, a monthly allowance of $50.00 out of the husband’s estate and earnings.

The parties were married in Baltimore City on May 9th, 1883, and lived together until January 8th, 1895, when it is alleged the appellant abandoned his wife, leaving in her care and custody their only child, then a boy of eleven years. It…