MacDougall v. MacDougall

Opinion by

Mr. Justice McBride,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County sustaining preliminary objections to plaintiff’s complaint in equity.

The plaintiff, as mother and next friend of three minor children, sought a decree for periodic support payments by a nonresident father to be enforced against a trust fund established as collateral security for such support within the jurisdiction of the court. The mother and father are divorced, the father being now a resident of California. Since the divorce, both plaintiff and defendant have remarried and the…