Springer v. Springer

KERN, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding appellee-husband an absolute divorce on the ground of voluntary separation. Appellant-wife had filed a cross-claim for absolute divorce on the ground of constructive desertion by appellee, to wit, that he was guilty of such cruelty as to have justified her withdrawal from the marital abode.

After trial, the court made findings that the parties were married in the District of Columbia in 1939; that one child was born of this marriage who is now an adult; that the wife voluntarily left the parties’ home in 1962; that they lived…