Ward v. Goetz

WORKS, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal from the judgment. The appellant Goetz and the respondent were formerly husband and wife. Some time prior to February 16, 1911, the respondent commenced an action for separate maintenance against her husband. On the date mentioned the two entered into an agreement to live apart, the instrument also providing for a dismissal of the maintenance suit, and for the payment by the husband to the wife of the sum of fifty dollars each month, so long as they should remain married. As a part of the same transaction the appellant Goetz, as principal, and the…