Hess v. Hess

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Estell R. Hess filed a libel, March 6, 1931, for a divorce from the bond of matrimony with Edwin S. Hess; it was drawn under paragraph (d) of Section. 10 of “The Divorce Law” of May 2,1929, P. L. 1237, which provides that it shall be lawful for the “innocent and injured spouse” to obtain a divorce upon proving that the other spouse has “committed wilful and malicious desertion, and absence from the habitation of the injured and innocent spouse, without a reasonable cause, for and during the term and space of two years.”

The case was tried by a judge of the common…