Crumlick v. Crumlick

Digges, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Tbe Circuit Court for Baltimore County, by its decree of June 18th, 1932, granted a divorce to tbe appellee (wife) from tbe appellant on tbe ground of desertion and abandonment, awarded tbe custody of tbe three children to tbe wife, and ordered that tbe husband pay tbe sum of $17.50 a week as alimony and for tbe support of tbe children. Tbe appeal is by tbe husband from that decree.

Abandonment, or desertion, as a marital offense, consists in tbe voluntary separation of one of tbe married parties from tbe other, or tbe refusal to renew suspended…