Legal Opinion
Colby v. Colby
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 20, 1958No. [No. 215, September Term, 1957.]PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHorney, J.
This is an appeal from a determination by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County that a divorce a vinculo matrimonii obtained in Nevada by the appellant, Sarah P. Colby (the wife), was null and void, and that the appellee, Benjamin Colby (the husband), was entitled to a Maryland divorce a mensa et thoro.
Benjamin and Sarah Colby were married in Chicago in 1927, had three children, and lived together in Chevy Chase for over four years prior to March 4, 1955. On the latter date, the wife, without prior notice to her husband, took their fifteen year old daughter and went to the home of the…
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