Bartoi v. Bartoi

Isidor Wasservogel, Spec. Ref.

Plaintiff husband seeks to have the defendant wife account for the sum of approximately $25,000 on the ground that she obtained such moneys from him by fraud. Defendant counterclaims for a separation on the *264grounds of abandonment, nonsupport and cruel and inhuman treatment.

The record shows that plaintiff, a native of Eoumania, a seaman by occupation, illiterate and practically unable to speak or to make himself understood in English, married defendant in this city on May 21, 1951. It is his contention that defendant fraudulently advised him that, as an alien…