Swoyer v. Swoyer

The parties to this appeal were married in the Hotel Waldorf in New York on August 28th, 1919. The appellee, Alfred P. Swoyer, was at that time a widower about fifty-one years old, with a grown daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Holán, of Philadelphia. He was in easy circumstances, he held a lucrative and important position, from which he received $27,000 a year, and he owned a farm known as the “Sandy Hill Earm” near Horth East in Cecil County, Maryland, which he took under the will of his first wife, who died in 1912.

The appellant, Edythe Morris Swoyer, born Helfenstein, who at that time was about…