Peff Ex Rel. Laughlin v. Doolittle

The plaintiff, Geraldine Peff, was born in Des Moines, December 20, 1902. She is the daughter of L. W. Laughlin, whose home is in Mount Ayr. She was married to Peter Peff in New York City,'where she had been employed as a teacher, on June 30, 1931, and afterward lived in New Jersey. To this marriage twin daughters were born about 1935. Peter Peff is of Bulgarian birth, and after his marriage, through a manufacturing business he acquired considerable wealth. Mrs. Peff in 1937 developed mental trouble and was first taken care of in a private hospital for the mentally afflicted in Overbrook, New…