Copeland v. Copeland

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

The husband’» libel, filed January 7, 1938, charged his wife with having deserted him on July 1, 1932, and averred that she had “committed wilful and malicious desertion and absence from the habitation of the injured and innocent spouse without reasonable cause, for and during the space of two years.”

The wife’s answer denied any wilful and malicious desertion by her of the libellant.

The master, by accepting as verity all the testimony of the libellant and disregarding the testimony of the respondent and her witnesses, found a constructive desertion of the libellant by…