Ballan v. Ballan

Harold Bailan, the husband-appellant, would have us reverse the decree of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County which granted a divorce a mensa et thoro to Eve Bailan, the wife-appellee.

The Ballans were married on 2 March 1934, and have two children, a son 25 and a daughter 22, both of whom are now married. Sometime in December, 1966, Mrs. Bailan stopped speaking to her husband, stopped preparing his meals, and stopped making his bed. She justified her silence by testifying:

‘Tie only had one way of beginning a conversation and that would be, if only you would learn to be pleasant, if only…