Dotterer v. Dotterer

This appeal is from a decree in a divorce case dismissing the husband’s cross-bill charging desertion and awarding a counsel fee of $400 to the wife. There is no appeal from the dismissal of the wife’s original bill charging desertion.

The parties were married in 1941 and are now over fifty years of age, without children. Each of them had been previously married and divorced. The husband claims that' the wife deserted him on September 29, 1949 when she moved from their apartment on Loch Raven Boulevard to Philadelphia with part of the furniture and obtained employment there. She claims that he…