CONTAKOS v. Contakos

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County vacating a divorce decree which had been entered May 2, 1927, on an action brought by Nicholas Contakos charging his wife, Stamoula, with desertion. Nicholas and Stamoula were married in Greece in 1907. Four children were born to them, two of whom are still living, James, born in 1911, and Pauline, born in 1914.

One month after the entry of the divorce decree, Nicholas married Margaret Shiftman. Nicholas and Margaret had three children: the first was stillborn on January 2, 1928, and the…