Gaines v. Gaines

WILBUR K. MILLER, Associate Justice.

Thelma M. Gaines sued her" husband, Charles H. Gaines, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia for a limited divorce on the ground of cruelty, and for alimony pendente lite. Her complaint described her husband as a resident of Virginia and process was served on him in that commonwealth by a deputy marshal who certified in his return the time and place of service and that the husband was then “a non-resident of the District of Columbia.”

Gaines answered. In one defense, he challenged the jurisdiction of the District Court to…