Hedderick v. Hedderick

Opinion by

Reno, J.,

In 1946 the husband secured a. divorce from his wife, since 1944 an inmate in the Warren State Hospital, and the court below, pursuant to The Divorce Law of May 2, 1929, P. L. 1237, §45,23 PS §45, decreed that the husband pay as alimony .the cost, not exceeding $15 a week, of maintaining the insane wife in the hospital, or in the custody of other persons or corporations, during the term of her natural life.

Following the decree the husband instituted a suit in equity for the partition of real estate held by him and his wife as tenants by the entireties. As a result, the…