Walden v. Walden

Appeal by the defendant wife from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated May 5, 1971 and made after a nonjury trial, which inter alla granted a divorce to the plaintiff husband on the ground of abandonment for-two or more years. Judgment reversed, on the law, with costs, and new trial granted in the interests of justice; and plaintiff is directed to pay defendant $1,000 as a counsel fee, without prejudice to .an application for a further counsel fee for the retrial. Plaintiff’s claim at the trial was that defendant locked him out of the marital apartment without justification in…