Metcalf v. Metcalf

The District Court dismissed appellant’s suit for a divorce, on the ground that she was a resident of New York and not of the District of Columbia. D. C. Code 1940, § 16-401. The evidence supports that finding. Appellant had been absent from her former home in the District since 1923. In the meantime she had been in China, Massachusetts, and New York. She had recently voted in New York. This, of course, involved a claim of residence there. She had continued to reside in New York City ever since. On the- other hand, she testified that she had never abandoned her domicile in the District of…