Drummond v. Drummond

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bok,

This is an appeal under the Act of March 5, 1925, P.L. 23, §1, 12 PS §672, jurisdiction being the subject of this appeal.

The suit is by a wife under the Act of May 23, 1907, P.L. 227, §§1, 2, as ultimately amended by the Act of December 15, 1955, P.L. 878, 48 PS §§131, 132 (book *536and pocket). We have upheld this Act as a special procedural right of a deserted wife in addition to her common law right to support: MacDougall v. MacDougall, 337 Pa. 340 (1959), 155 A. 2d 358,

Plaintiff has sued her estranged husband in Montgomery County for maintenance and has joined as…