Buswell v. Buswell

Opinion by

Me. Justice Musmanno,

On May 18, 1940, Lucinda D. Buswell and Bobert B. Buswell entered the holy bonds of matrimony. Less than four years later they shook off the bonds. In the meantime, two children had been born to the union, and, in anticipation of the contemplated divorce, the parents entered into an oral agreement which was later incorporated by the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, where the parties were living at thé time, into the divorce decree handed down on April 21, 1944.

The agreement provided, inter alia, that Bobert Buswell would pay to Lucinda Buswell as alimony…