Commonwealth v. Foltz

Citations

• 50 Pa. Super. 576
• 1912 Pa. Super. LEXIS 97

Syllabus

<p>Husband and wife — Order for support — Default in payment — Divorce.</p> <p>Where a husband has entered his own recognizance in the court of quarter sessions under an order of court to pay his wife a weekly sum and after certain payments, defaults, and subsequently the wife obtains an absolute divorce, the wife may recover in a suit brought in the name of the commonwealth to her own use upon her husband’s recognizance the sum of the weekly payments due her up to the date of the decree in divorce.</p>