Spencer v. Spencer

We have here a rather dreary chronicle of domestic strife which began when the parties were married in 1942. The appellant is a physician in general practice in rural Montgomery County. He is 49 ; the appellee is 47. They have three children, Sheldon 23, Sheryl 18, and Deborah 12. The two girls live with their mother who left the marital abode on 4 June 1968. In her bill of complaint, filed two weeks later, there are allegations of “extreme cruelty” which the appellant denied. The case came on for trial before J. M. Mathias, J., in April 1969. After four days of testimony Judge Mathias…