Morphet v. Morphet

This is an action to enforce a judgment entered by a Pennsylvania court in 1967 for $14,500 as the accrued amount due and unpaid under a 1950 judgment of another court of that state for support payments of $20 per week to plaintiff as the wife of defendant. Defendant filed a general denial and also pleaded as an affirmative defense the entry of a 1953 Nevada divorce decree as terminating the obligation to pay support money at that time. Plaintiff’s reply alleged that at the time of the Nevada divorce decree defendant (the plaintiff in the Nevada case) was not a resident of that state and that…