Stephenson v. Stephenson

QUINN, Associate Judge.

This is an uncontested appeal from a judgment dismissing, for lack of jurisdiction, a wife’s suit for a limited divorce on the grounds of cruelty. The undisputed evidence showed that defendant, a sergeant in the United States Air Force, was originally from North Carolina while plaintiff was from Virginia, in which state they were married on June 16, 1951. Thereafter, defendant was assigned to Andrews Air Base in nearby Maryland and on November 15, 1955, the couple began living in an apartment in Washington. The alleged acts of cruelty took place the following September,…