Appeal of Nye
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
FROM THE DECREE OF THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF BERKS COUNTY. No. 236 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No, ....... July Term 1887, O. C. Iii 1877 or 1878 John C. Nye was married to Elizabeth Riegel. They lived together until 1879 when she left his home, and moved into a house of her own where she resided until her husband’s death in November 1886. A short time after this separation she commenced a suit for desertion, but her complaint was dismissed.
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FROM THE DECREE OF THE ORPHANS’ COURT OF BERKS COUNTY. No. 236 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No, ....... July Term 1887, O. C. Iii 1877 or 1878 John C. Nye was married to Elizabeth Riegel. They lived together until 1879 when she left his home, and moved into a house of her own where she resided until her husband’s death in November 1886. A short time after this separation she commenced a suit for desertion, but her complaint was dismissed. After the decease of her husband, Mrs. Nye made application to the administrator of his estate, to have appraised to her goods to the value of…
1Opinion of the Court
*344Opinion,
Me. Justice McCollum :
John C. Nye, a widower aged seventy years, and Elizabeth Reigel, a widow aged thirty years, were married in the summer of 1878, and dwelt together as husband and wife until the fall of 1879, when she left his home and moved into her own house about ten miles distant, where she resided until his death in November, 1886. A short time after the separation she commenced suit against him under the desertion statutes, which upon full hearing and investigation by the court of Quarter Sessions, resulted in a dismissal of her complaint. After that there was no…
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