McBurnie v. McBurnie

This is an appeal by William T. McBurnie, respondent, appellant, from a decree granting a divorce a mensa et thoro to his wife, Dorothy M. McBurnie, complainant, appellee.

On April 3, 1956, the complainant filed a bill against her husband alleging that he deserted her without just cause on or about June 21, 1955, that said desertion and abandonment had continued uninterruptedly from that date, and that there was no reasonable hope of reconciliation. She asked that she be divorced a mensa et thoro from the respondent; that she be awarded care and custody of the minor child of the parties,…