Applegarth v. Applegarth

The Chancellor granted Harriet S. Applegarth an absolute divorce on the ground of abandonment, and her husband, Harold G. Applegarth, appeals, claiming that the evidence did not establish abandonment; that there was a lack of corroboration .of the wife’s testimony; and that the evidence shows a bona fide effort on his part to reconcile.

The parties were married in 1949 and the record reveals no real marital difficulties until 1961. They purchased and moved into a house on Bolton Street in Baltimore in 1957. Having no children of their own, they adopted a boy and a girl, now ten and five years…