Sabbarese v. Sabbarese

Complainant sues in the alternative for maintenance under the statute, or the enforcement of a covenant for the payment of $12 per week under a separation agreement. Defendant answers, denying any abandonment or non-support and alleging adultery in bar of maintenance; admitting the separation agreement and the cessation of his payments thereunder, and alleging in justification thereof, first, a breach by the wife of the mutual covenant against molestation in the agreement, and second, that his execution of the agreement was procured by fraud; he also counter-claims for the cancellation of the…