Glover v. Sheldon

The first count of the complaint alleges, in effect, that the parties were married in 1917 and divorced in 1940, and that each has subsequently remarried; that the plaintiff claimed payment by the defendant for expenses incurred in the support and education of the children of the marriage; that the amount so expended was in dispute and the parties on August 16, 1945, “entered into an oral agreement to settle said claim for the sum of $25,000, payable $10,000 immediately, $10,000 in the year 1946 and $5,000 in the year 1947”; and that no part of the first instalment has been paid.

The defendant…