Pohzehl v. Pohzehl

This is an appeal from a decree denying the appellant, Joseph F. Pohzehl, a divorce a vinculo matrimonii from his wife, Frances June Pohzehl, appellee, on the grounds of adultery, and granting the wife a divorce a mensa et thoro from the appellant on her cross bill for desertion. The testimony was taken before an Examiner.

It appears that the appellant, while in the United States Coast Guard, stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, married the appellee in 1943. At that time he knew that she was an illegitimate child. In 1946 they purchased a farm near Rockville, Maryland, about eighteen miles from…