Hitchcock v. Hitchcock
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia granting an absolute divorce on the ground of desertion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
The assignments of error are two : (1) That the testimony-failed to prove wilful desertion and abandonment of the appellee by the appellant within the meaning of the statute, as was held by the court below ; and (2) That it was error to hold that the time from July 6, 1896, to October 26, 1897, during which the appellee was claiming that the appellant was not his wife, should not be excluded from the computation in estimating the period of desertion.
And upon these assignments of error three propositions have been advanced on behalf of the appellant, which are: (1) That the appellant was fully…
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