Foster v. Foster

Plaintiff, Lucille A. Foster, appeals from a decree which dismissed her complaint for separate maintenance and awarded a divorce to her husband, George E. Foster. The wife filed suit for separate maintenance on the ground of desertion, and the husband counterclaimed for divorce on the same grounds. The chancellor found the wife to be the deserter, awarded the divorce to the husband, and her appeal follows.

The issue to be determined is whether the husband had reasonable cause for leaving the marital home so as to constitute the wife as the deserter, or whether by his departure he became the…