Scott v. Holcomb

(dissenting) — Whatever may be the Washington law as to a father’s right of contribution against the mother for support and maintenance he has furnished to their children, it has never before been applied to such a state of facts as that presently before us. Here, a father who left his wife in New York, taking four of the five minor children with him to Michigan and later bringing one of them to Washington, and concealing his and their whereabouts from her during the entire period that he furnished maintenance and support for them, is held to have a right to contribution from her for half of…