Rhoderick v. Rhoderick

A husband appeals from the award of a divorce a mensa to his wife on the ground of desertion, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and alleging that the court erred in excusing one of his witnesses and in awarding to the wife certain monies in joint bank accounts.

The parties were married in 1947 and had three children. The husband testified that from the very beginning he and his wife were “incompatible” and increasingly so. He complained of her “emotional outbreaks”, culminating in an episode in December, 1958, when they quarreled because he did not bring home a Christmas tree. That…