Frist v. Gallant

SIMONS, District Judge.

This is an action at law for damages based upon fraud and deceit. Plaintiff alleges in her complaint that she and defendant W. E. Gallant, Jr., were married on June'19, 1954, and thereafter lived together as man and wife until June 1955, when said defendant deserted her, and she then instituted an action for separate maintenance. She further alleges that in said action both defendants jointly conspired and schemed to defraud plaintiff; that they gave false and fraudulent testimony in reference to the annual income of defendant W. E. Gallant, Jr., 1 knowing the same to…