Kelsey v. Kelsey

Lita H. Kelsey, who resides on a farm in Queen Anne’s County, brings this appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County which dismissed her bill of complaint for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii from her husband, Carleton Kelsey, on the ground of abandonment.

The parties were married in Philadelphia in November, 1923, and resided in the State of Pennsylvania until April, 1942, when they established their home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Complainant testified that they had normal marital relations until September, 1940, when her husband contracted a venereal disease, but…