Lombardi v. Lombardi

This appeal is from a decree awarding a wife permanent alimony of $12 per week and counsel fee of $150, and dismissing the husband’s cross-bill on the ground of desertion. The chancellor filed no opinion, but merely announced his conclusions on the facts.

The parties were married in Italy in 1922 and one daughter was born as a result of the marriage during the following year. In 1924 the appellant came to America. He sent her money from time to time. In 1948, 24 years later, he gave her a somewhat equivocal invitation to come to Baltimore. He wrote that he would not send her any more letters…