Gallagher v. Gallagher

The parties in this action were married in 1916. They have one child, a son, who was born in 1921. The parties separated in 1929, and some time thereafter the defendant was placed on probation on a charge of abandonment to which he pleaded guilty although he insists upon this trial that he was not guilty. The defendant contributed to the support of the plaintiff and the child until 1937, when the child reached his sixteenth birthday after which date the child went to live with the defendant who thereafter paid a reduced amount for the support of the plaintiff until May, 1946, when the…