Commonwealth v. Rumford

Biester, J.,

On July 11, 1949, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by its attorney, *360Donald B. Smith, instituted the above action in assumpsit.

Plaintiff’s complaint avers, inter alia, that defendant became the wife of Albert B. Rumford on August 15, 1903, which marriage was afterward dissolved by a decree in divorce granted by the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County on December 16, 1946; that Albert B. Rumford was committed to the Norristown State Hospital on November 2, 1914, and was continuously an inmate of that institution until at least December 16, 1946; that the cost of caring for and…