Legal Opinion

Featherstone v. Featherstone

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided April 17, 1961No. 2714PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant husband filed a complaint for absolute divorce on the ground of desertion for two years. The wife did not appear at trial but was represented by counsel. According to the record, the parties were married in 1935 and are the parents of four children, two of whom are now adults. Appellant testified that after appellee returned home from Saint Elizabeths Hospital in May 1958, he asked her several times “about staying together.” She informed him that she did not want to live with him any longer and wished he would “get out of the house.” At her insistence and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Shirley v. ShirleyDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1958

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Novak v. NovakDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1965

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