Moore v. Moore

In this divorce suit, the defendant-husband appeals from a decree of the trial court which permitted the plaintiff-wife to voluntarily dismiss the proceeding over the husband’s objection.

The chronology is important. In May of 1975, appellee Nellie H. Moore, a resident of Fairfax County, filed her bill of complaint in the northern Virginia court below against appellant Thomas E. Moore, Jr., who lived in the town of Blackstone in the southern part of the Commonwealth. She alleged the parties had last cohabited in Fairfax County and that they had lived separate and apart without cohabitation and…