Systma v. Bonte

This is a suit to compel defendant to reimburse complainant moneys advanced paid out by complainant to furnish medical services in connection with an operation on defendant's wife.

Defendant and his wife had been separated for several years, the defendant having left his wife, and so far as appears his leaving her was without legal justification. Soon after the separation defendant was arrested for non-support and obligated to pay his wife $8 a week for her support, which payments he has regularly made.

In 1927, defendant's wife was operated on for gangrene and her infected leg amputated.…