Harris v. Harris

The plaintiff, Ruth Harris, is the wife of the defendant, Charles Mitchell Harris. At Special Term she recovered against him a summary judgment for $19,020.62, which is now before us for review on his appeal from an affirmance thereof.

In 1927 the plaintiff secured a judgment separating the parties from bed and board and directing that the defendant pay to her fifty dollars a week for the support of herself and their infant daughter, June Harris, whose custody was thereby committed to her. Defendant did not make the payments so required of him with the result that judgments therefor…