HALES v. HALES

No. 3570.

207 A.2d 657 (1965)

Ethel Seaton HALES, Appellant, v. David E. HALES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 11, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orie Seltzer, Washington, D. C., with whom Theodore E. Breault, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Stanley Klavan, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.


MYERS, Associate Judge:

As a culmination of several days of argument and bickering, appellant-wife, in the absence of her husband (appellee), secured the locks to their home so he could not re-enter. She allegedly did so on the advice of counsel and because she feared he was about to consummate his threat to remove half the furniture. When the husband could not gain admittance to the house, he made no attempt to force entry but merely departed. Since these events...

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