Commonwealth ex rel. Pilla v. Pilla

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia denying the support petition of Nora Pilla, the appellant, on the ground that a valid common law marriage never existed between her and her alleged husband, Carl Pilla, the appellee.

Nora Pilla testified that she and the appellee were married on October 1, 1952 by common law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The record discloses that a meretricious relationship between the parties began in 1949 or 1950, at which time the appellee was a married man with three children. The wife of the appellee divorced him…