Stumpf v. Stumpf

This Court in Wood v. Wood, 227 Md. 211, 216, recently repeated what prior cases had said from time to time in regard to a separation of spouses—“acquiescence to or assent to what one cannot prevent does not amount to a voluntary agreement thereto.” See, for example, Rhoderick v. Rhoderick, 224 Md. 478, 481; Moran v. Moran, 219 Md. 399, 404; Courtney v. Courtney, 213 Md. 600, 602; Miller v. Miller, 178 Md. 12, 21. On the other hand where the husband demanded in anger that the wife leave and she did not refuse,, but agreed and did leave, it was held in Matysek v. Matysek, 212 Md. 44, that the…