Com. Ex Rel. Berardino v. Berardino

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

Defendant appeals from an order of the county court of Allegheny County, entered April 11, 1930, adjudging him in contempt, and committing him to prison, for refusing to pay $2,000 out of $4,500 arrears due by him under an order for the support of his wife, entered January 31,1929. See opinion in No. 17, April T., 1931, and 96 Pa. Superior Ct. 288.

On the same day that the county court refused his petition for a reduction of the order for support, March 7, 1930, his wife presented her petition setting forth the defendant’s failure to pay any sum on account of the court’s…