Vallee v. Vallee

The parties to this action are husband and wife, having intermarried on July 6, 1931. About twenty-one months *621later, on April 5, 1933, they entered into a separation agreement whereby, among other things, the husband became bound to pay the wife $100 a week for the rest of her natural life or until her remarriage. The wife agreed to accept such provision in lieu of all other obligations of the husband, which provisions, it was agreed, should continue even though the marriage was dissolved by a decree of divorce obtained by either party against the other.

This action was instituted by the wife…