Legal Opinion
Harrington v. Harrington
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided October 10, 1958No. 2197, 2198PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAYTON, Acting Judge.
Here for review are three parts of a judgment: (1) a decree of divorce granted a husband on the ground of wife’s desertion, (2) refusal to award- separate maintenance to the wife, and (3) an order requiring plaintiff-husband to support a child admittedly not his own.
From our study of the stenographic transcript we are satisfied the evidence fully supports the finding below that there had been a willful desertion by the wife. We are also satisfied that the circumstances were not such as to entitle the wife to an award of separate maintenance.
The remaining question is…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- In Re the Estate of FindlayNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
- Niewiadomski v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1947
- Estate of WalkerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1919
- Leyerly v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1947
- Miller v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1942
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Brown v. BrownCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1980
- Prager v. Smith Ex Rel. PragerDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1963
- Angela Fuller v. Gerald FullerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- Retzer v. RetzerDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1960
- S.A. v. M.A.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987
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