Helmold v. Helmold

Citations

• 19 Pa. Super. 217
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 66

Syllabus

<p>Husband and wife — Desertion—Nonsupport—Acts of February 22, 1718, and Hay 4, 1855, P. L. 430.</p> <p>The Act of May 4,1855, P. L. 430, which provides that “ whenever any husband from drunkenness, profligacy or other cause shall neglect or refuse to provide for his wife, or shall desert her, she shall have all the rights and privileges secured to a feme sole trader under the Act of February 22, 1718, 1 Sm. L. 99,” does not confer upon deserted wives all the privileges set forth in the act of 1718, but only those which inhere in women as feme sole traders, namely, those affecting their rights in their own estate and earnings, and their right to trade. The act does not sustain an application for an attachment against the real estate of an absent husband by a deserted wife.</p>