Mason v. Mason

On June 2, 1966, Pelzo Samuel Mason filed a bill of complaint in the court below seeking a divorce a vinculo matrimonii from his wife, Helen Louise Swaim Mason, on the sole ground that the parties had lived separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for two years, under the provisions of § 20-91(9), Code of 1950, as amended (1960 Repl. Vol., 1968 Cum. Supp.)

The wife filed an answer admitting that she and her husband had lived separate and apart for the statutory period, but she alleged in her cross-bill that in a prior suit for divorce, filed in the Circuit Court of…