Bradshaw v. Bradshaw

Marvin P. Bradshaw, now a resident of the District of Columbia, is appealing here from a decree of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County granting his wife, Bessie P. Bradshaw, of Silver Spring, a divorce a mensa et thoro and permanent alimony at the rate of $210 per month.

The parties, who formerly lived in Illinois, were married in Washington in 1935. At that time defendant was earning only $1,260 a year. For two years he took a course in accountancy at Benjamin Franklin University in Washington, attending classes there in the morning, and working in the afternoon and at night. After…