Alden v. Alden

Plaintiff, in his original complaint, sought a divorce from his wife on the ground of desertion claimed to have continued from August 21, 1953, to the date of the complaint, September 27,1956, but later amended it to cover the period from January 1, 1955, to February 11, 1959, there apparently having been some resumption of marital relations in December of 1954.

Briefly summarized, the evidence indicated that in August, 1953, while the parties were living in Philadelphia in a house which they had purchased some three and one-half years before, plaintiff walked out one morning, after some kind…