DAUGHERTY v. DIXON


297 S.W.2d 944 (1956)

Virginia Alexander Dixon DAUGHERTY, Complainant-Appellant, v. Gordon S. DIXON, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee. Eastern Section.

Certiorari Denied February 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lodge Evans, Elizabethton, for appellant.

Banks, Street & Banks and Dick L. Johnson, Elizabethton, for appellee.


Certiorari Denied by Supreme Court February 8, 1957.

HALE, Judge.

The question: Can a divorced wife who subsequently marries another man enforce an award for monthly alimony against her former husband for the period following her remarriage?

On January 9, 1956, the complainant filed this action against her former husband to recover alimony of $35 per month from December, 1935, based upon a decree of divorce she obtained on May 23, 1935. (She originally...

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