Boissevain v. Boissevain

The amended complaint alleges the marriage of the plaintiff and the defendant in the city of New York in 1901; that the plaintiff procured an absolute decree of divorce against the defendant upon the ground of the defendant’s adultery, in the city of Amsterdam, Holland, in November, 1923, in which decree defendant was directed to pay to the plaintiff alimony at the rate of £500 per year in equal quarterly installments; that upon said judgment of divorce and decree the plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant for arrears in alimony in the sum of $5,765.49 of which no part except…