Coffey v. Coffey

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

On September 19th, 1925, prosecutor was adjudged “to be a disorderly person” in the Juvenile Court of the County of Atlantic on a sworn complaint made by his wife, then a resident of the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, charging that he had “abandoned, deserted and willfully refused or neglected to provide for” her, and ordered to pay the sum of $15 per week to “the Chief Probation Officer of the County of Atlantic for the support and maintenance of his said family.” By an order entered or February 26th, 1927, the weekly…