Legal Opinion
Sears v. Sears
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 30, 1960No. 2666PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOOD, Associate Judge.
This appeal is by a wife from a judgment granting her husband’s complaint for annulment of their marriage and denying her counterclaim for separate maintenance.
When appellant first met appellee in New Jersey in 1942, he had a wife and a young daughter and had been married for thirteen years. About a year later they began to see each other socially, became intimate, and in 1944 he separated from his wife. Appellant and appellee wished to marry but the obstacle to this was the fact that he had a wife who refused to participate in a divorce proceeding as he suggested.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Caldwell v. CaldwellNew York Court of Appeals · 1948
- Goodloe v. HawkCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1940
- Tonti v. ChadwickSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1949
- Simmons v. SimmonsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1927
- Ruppert v. RuppertCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Butler v. ButlerDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1968
- Mary Griemsman Sears v. John C. SearsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1961
- Rosenbaum v. RosenbaumDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1965
- Sears v. GriemsmanDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1963
- E.E. Kitzmiller, III & D.K. Kitzmiller v. J. Halkias & Lycoming County TCB ~ Appeal of: J. HalkiasCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2025