Benson v. Benson

This appeal is from a decree dismissing a wife’s bill for divorce on the ground of voluntary separation for more than three years. The parties were married in Towson on July 1, 1944, and there are no children of the marriage. Some time later, evidently upon his return from military service, they went to live with his parents on a two-hundred acre farm in Baltimore County. He was employed on a night shift; she was also employed. She testified to increasing friction with her mother-in-law.

Around Easter, in 1949, the wife begged him to establish a separate home, and told him she couldn’t “take…