Commonwealth ex rel. Thompson v. Thompson

Opinion by

Boss, J.,

On April 26, 1946 Eva B. Thompson filed a petition in the Domestic Belations Division of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia County against Benjamin D. Thompson, her husband, asking for support for herself and her two minor children. An order of support in the sum of $32.50 was entered on September 10, 1946, and the husband’s petition to reduce filed thereafter was dismissed on December 19, 1947. No appeal was taken from either of these rulings.

The present appeal arose in this manner: On October 20,1949 Benjamin D. Thompson filed a second petition to reduce and an amended…