Gessler v. GESSLER

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

In disposing of this appeal we must accept as verity the averments of plaintiff’s complaint to this effect: The plaintiff and the defendant were married in April 1945; two children were born; a daughter on January 14, 1947 and a son, now six years old. On September 16, 1954, the defendant left his wife and children in the common home in Philadelphia. He separated himself from his family without reasonable cause under circumstances which charge him with desertion and abandonment of Ms wife and children. Since the separation he has willfully refused and neglected to support…