Commonwealth v. Peters

Berkey, P. J.,

The parties to this proceeding, James and Olive Peters, were married April 16, 1922, aged twenty-four and twenty-three, respectively. He was a miner and she a telephone operator. They went to housekeeping at once after marriage and cohabited until May 30, 1924, when the husband withdrew from the home. The husband, at the time of the marriage, had two Liberty Bonds of the par value of $500 each in the possession of the First National Bank of Rockwood, Pa., for safekeeping, and a deposit in that bank in cash of a considerable sum, to which he added his savings after marriage, so…