Case ID: ohio-law-abs_1/html/0502-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CHITTENDEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 513
    SADOSKI v. SADOSKI
    Ohio Appeals, Sixth District, Lucas County
    No. 1337.
    Decided June 18, 1923
    This opinion has not been published except in Abstract.
    INFANTS — (1) Agreement of father to support child — (2) Circumstances showing that contract ■ not illegal where made after father was arrested for non-support.
    Attorneys — Morton Seeley and E. P. Buckenmeyer for Sadoski, plaintiffs in error; F. J. Szumigala for defendants in error.
   CHITTENDEN, J.

Epitomized Opinion

This was an action on a contract for support brought by the minor children of William Sadoski. William as principal and Frances as surety entered into a contract with the Toledo Humane Society to pay $15 per week for the support of the five minor children of the defendant, William. The defendants were in default $907. A demurrer to the petition was filed and sustained by Judge James S. Martin of Toledo Common Pleas, whereupon plaintiffs prosecuted error.

1. An agreement by a father to support his minor children is not contrary to public .policy, but is in accordance with the duty imposed upon him by law of supporting the same.

2. As there was no indication that the contract was executed to suppress criminal proceedings oi that any duress was exercised, it cannot be saic that the contract was illegal.