Roberts v. Roberts

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations.

The defendant-appellant will be referred to herein as the defendant and the plaintiff-appellee as the plaintiff, as the parties appeared in the trial court.

The plaintiff commenced an action for alimony by filing a petition in the Court of Common Pleas and securing the issuance of summons on May 11,1956. The plaintiff alleged that defendant had been guilty of gross neglect of duty and abandonment, as plaintiff’s causes for alimony.

On December 18, 1956, defendant filed an answer to…