Brown v. Brown

This appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County which declined specific enforcement of the support provisions of a separation agreement entered into between Dorothy M. Brown and her husband, Harold L. Brown. An appeal was originally noted to the Court of Special Appeals. We granted certiorari in advance of the consideration of the case by that court.

The parties were married in 1943. The only child of the marriage, a son, was 25 years of age when an action for divorce was instituted by the husband. On 18 November 1973, the husband had left the residence of the parties.…