Fletcher v. Fletcher

HOOD, Associate Judge.

A wife appeals from a judgment granting her husband a divorce on the ground of voluntary separation for five years. 1 Her appeal raises the single question of whether a Maryland judgment in a divorce suit between the parties was res judicata of the issue of voluntary separation.

The Maryland suit was instituted by the husband in March 1955 and sought a divorce on the ground that the parties had voluntarily lived separate and apart, without any cohabitation, for three consecutive years prior to the filing of the bill of complaint. 2 He alleged that he was a resident of…