Towne v. Towne

The plaintiff and Joseph M. Towne, whom I shall call the defendant, intermarried in 1926 and from this union a son was born. They separated in the latter part of 1931 and from then on have never lived together. On January 10, 1934, they entered into a written contract, by the terms of which the defendant agreed to pay his wife $100 each month in full satisfaction of all claims she might have for the support of herself and her child, with the proviso that this monthly sum should be increased $25 for each $1,000 by which the defendant’s annual income should exceed $4,000. A further provision…