Commonwealth ex rel. Messing v. Messing

Opinion by

Flood, J.,

This is an appeal from the dismissal by the Municipal Court of Philadelphia, of the wife-plaintiff’s petition for support upon the ground that the defendant-husband had been validly divorced from the plaintiff in Nevada in 1952.

There was no question that the divorce in Nevada was procedurally correct and that notice was sent to the plaintiff. She ignored the proceedings and a divorce decree in favor of the husband was handed down on August 28, 1952 reciting due service of the summons and process upon the wife, the introduction of evidence by the husband in support of the…