Donnelly v. Donnelly

Henry Arthur Donnelly and Elsie Virginia Donnelly were married on March 8, 1935, at Martinsburg, West Virginia. The marriage ceremony was conducted in a perfectly legal manner and they were supposedly validly married. Prior thereto Elsie was married to a man by the name of John Blankenship and had a son by him. The Donnellys lived together as man and wife, continuously, for eleven years, when differences arose between them and they separated in 1946.

On December 23, 1935, these parties executed an agreement with the Hanover Banking and Building Association of Baltimore City, a body corporate,…