Jenkins v. Jenkins

There is presented a difficult and distressing situation which is not within the power of any court to solve adequately.

The parties are now aged spouses, who married nearly fifty years ago and have been living apart for upwards of forty years under a formal separation agreement executed on April 21,1902.

That agreement stipulates support payments of twenty-five dollars a week, and it was fully performed up to February 3, 1941. Between that date and September 3, 1941, there were partial defaults and thereafter a total cessation of payments until entry of the temporary order (without prejudice)…