Commonwealth ex rel. Hayes v. Hayes

Opinion by

Montgomery, J.,

This is an appeal from an order vacating a prior agreed support order and dismissing the wife’s petition to reduce to judgment the arrearages which had accrued thereon.

The parties were married on June 12, 1954, when the husband was 52 years of age and the wife past 57. it was the second marriage for both parties. They lived together for a period of only 53 days until August 4, 1954, when the husband left the wife for the reason, as alleged by him, that he discovered she was being treated for syphilis. Since that date he has never cohabited or had any marital relations…