Commonwealth v. Shecter
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 171, Oct. T., 1914, by defendant, from order of the Municipal Court of Phila. Co., Feb. T., 1914, No.- 186, awarding attachment in case of Commonwealth ex rel. v. Jacob Shecter. Petition for attachment. From the record it appeared that on December 16, 1913, the court of quarter sessions of Philadelphia county made an order on the defendant td pay to his wife, Adele Shecter, the sum of $4.50 per week for her support.
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Appeal, No. 171, Oct. T., 1914, by defendant, from order of the Municipal Court of Phila. Co., Feb. T., 1914, No.- 186, awarding attachment in case of Commonwealth ex rel. v. Jacob Shecter. Petition for attachment. From the record it appeared that on December 16, 1913, the court of quarter sessions of Philadelphia county made an order on the defendant td pay to his wife, Adele Shecter, the sum of $4.50 per week for her support. The defendant failed to comply with this order, and on February 18, 1914, he owed his wife the sum of $18.00. The municipal court awarded an attachment, and on June…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Head, J.,
The difficulties, if any, which may attend the proper solution of the question presented to us by this record do not arise because of any complications in the question itself. On the contrary it is single and simple and the situation from which it springs may thus be stated.
On December 16, 1913, the court of quarter sessions of Philadelphia county — after a hearing in an ordinary desertion case — ordered and decreed that the defendant, the present appellant, pay to his .wife “the sum of four 50/100 dollars per week for the support of herself from this date, etc.” On July…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Doyle v. Commonwealth ex rel. DavisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1884
- Shonk v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1869
- Buchanan v. CorsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1912