Bailey v. Dillon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed September 16, 1908, to enforce an agreement, under which the plaintiff was trustee for William Dillon, against Ida S. Dillon, the wife of William, by restraining the further prosecution by the defendant of a petition for support in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk. The defendant demurred to the bill.
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Bill in equity, filed September 16, 1908, to enforce an agreement, under which the plaintiff was trustee for William Dillon, against Ida S. Dillon, the wife of William, by restraining the further prosecution by the defendant of a petition for support in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk. The defendant demurred to the bill. The ease was heard by Braley, J., who made a decree that the demurrer be sustained, and, the plaintiff not desirihg to amend his bill, that the bill be dismissed, without prejudice to the right of William Dillon to plead the subject matter of the bill in…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
This case comes here on appeal by the plaintiff from a decree sustaining the defendant’s demurrer and dismissing the bill. The bill is brought by the plaintiff on behalf of and for the benefit of one William Dillon, husband of the defendant, to enforce a separation agreement entered into between the defendant and her husband through the intervention of the plaintiff as trustee. The agreement is dated July 30, 1903, and, after reciting that the defendant has left her husband without his consent and threatens proceedings for her support, and that to avoid such proceedings and make full' and…
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