Sparks v. Sparks

This is a bill brought by the complainant, seeking a divorce from his wife, the defendant; the grounds charged being adultery and malicious desertion without reasonable cause for two whole years, committed in the District of Columbia. These charges are fully sustained by the proof, but the chancellor dismissed the bill for want of jurisdiction, being of the opinion that the complainant had not resided in this State for two years next preceding the filing of the bill, and therefore, under Code 1858, section 2450 (Shannon’s Code, section 4203), was not entitled to maintain a bill for divorce in…