Gordon v. Gordon

Stevenson, V. C.

1. In this case I find that the defendant was guilty of willful, continued and obstinate desertion of her husband for a period *437of two years and over. Petitioner, however, did not promptly commence his suit after the defendant had been guilty of the complete matrimonial offence of desertion which would have entitled him to an absolute divorce if he had filed his petition in time. Some months passed by when without any break in the continuity of the desertion of the defendant with the characteristics necessary to make such desertion a cause of divorce, she (the defendant) became…