Luntsford v. Luntsford

REEVES, Chief Judge.

This case was heretofore tried to the court without the intervention of a jury. The issues are simple and the facts are hardly in dispute. The action is for the support, or rather, for necessaries, furnished to the infant son of the parties.

The plaintiff is the former wife of the defendant. They were married in Alameda, California, on May 3, 1930. There was born of the marriage, on January 28, 1934, a son, christened Everett Vernon Luntsford. On April 11, 1937 the defendant abandoned plaintiff and their child and came to the state of Missouri. On January 17, 1939, he…