Court Opinion

ID: 9540349
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:14:56.743832+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:58:38.484790
License: Public Domain

SHENK, J.
I concur in the judgment for the following reasons: The two parts of the agreement between the parties are in effect but one modified agreement. In refusing to perform the promises of the modification the defendant has repudiated the entire agreement. His alleged conduct would not support an inference that in refusing to comply with the modified agreement he was willing to perform under the agreement before modification. The plaintiff might have elected to sue on the agreement or in equity to attack the agreement as modified and, as prayed, take the relief due her in an action for separate maintenance. In the latter event she would be entitled to the interim relief afforded by the provisions of section 137 of the Civil Code. The defendant may not repudiate the agreement and at the same time rely upon it as a bar to that relief. (Bradford v. Bradford, 296 Mass. 187 [4 N.E.2d 1005].) The election here belongs to the plaintiff, not to the defendant.