10 Misc. 386 | New York Court of Common Pleas | 1894
A decree of separation was granted on March 19, 1887, to the plaintiff, and the defendant was directed to pay her “the sum of twenty dollars per week * * * in. the following manner; that is to say, in sums of forty dollars semimonthly on the first and third Mondays of each month.” Twenty dollars per week amount annually to $1,040, $40 semimonthly to $960. defendant paid the latter sum for over six years, up to September, 1893, and it does not appear that any other demand was made upon him during that period. In June and July, 1894, having been irregular in his