SUTTON v. LEIB

No. 10294.

188 F.2d 766 (1951)

SUTTON v. LEIB.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 22, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard R. Blalock, Springfield, Ill., Joseph R. Carson, Jean S. Carson, and John Alan Appleman, all of Urbana, Ill., for appellant.

A. M. Fitzgerald, Walter T. Day, Springfield, Ill., for appellee.

Before MAJOR, Chief Judge, and KERNER and FINNEGAN, Circuit Judges.


KERNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents another aspect of the problem of migratory divorce. Plaintiff sued defendant, her first husband, for 40 alimony installments from August 1, 1944 to November 1, 1947, inclusive, alleged to be due under a divorce decree. Defendant denied the claim on the ground that his liability under the decree had been terminated by her remarriage on July 3, 1944. Her third marriage was to one Sherwood Sutton on November 21, 1947. The court...

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