Popovic v. Popovic

Opinion by

Montgomery, J.,

This is an appeal from a decree granting a divorce a.v.m. in favor of Thomas A. Popovic against Ann Marie Popovic on the grounds of desertion. The parties were married September 5, 1953. There was one daughter born of the marriage.

The appellee is a career enlisted serviceman in the United States Navy, having enlisted in 1947. He is assigned to a ship which spends approximately six months of each year at sea.

In 1956, while residing in Boston, which at the time was the home port of the appellee’s ship, the appellant, in the ninth month of her pregnancy developed a…