Edwards v. Edwards

Retired (dissenting) :

The majority holds contrary to well established law that a wife, subjected to cruelty by her husband, is entitled to a divorce on the ground of constructive desertion even though she remains in the marital abode and he is required to leave it.1 Thus in reversing the order of the trial court which dismissed the complaint and in directing the entry of a judgment for absolute divorce on the ground of constructive desertion, the majority overrules, in effect, an unbroken line of decisions of this court. Haberman v. Haberman, D.C.App., 267 A. 2d 818 (1970); Hannon v. Hannon,…