Gebert v. Howard

Plaintiff, Ernest Gebert, married the defendant’s divorced wife, who was the mother of defendant’s son, then about eleven years of age. The boy was brought by his mother into the household of plaintiff and became a member of his family. Under successive arrangements between the boy’s mother and the defendant, Joseph Ploward, weekly sums were paid to her by defendant for the maintenance of the boy, being first at the rate of $2 per week for a period of 86 weeks, then at $4 per week for 88 weeks and then $5 per week for the remainder of the time. When these sums were received by the mother she…