Matysek v. Matysek

This is a divorce case in which the wife (appellee) was granted an absolute divorce on the ground that the parties had voluntarily lived separate and apart, without cohabitation, for a period of more than three years prior to the filing of the bill and that the separation was beyond any reasonable expectation of reconciliation. (Code (1951), Article 16, Sec. 33, clause fifth.) The husband admitted the fact and duration of the separation and the absence of cohabitation; but resisted the suit on three grounds: (1) he denied that the separation was voluntary, asserting that it was not by mutual…