SHELTON v. SHELTON

No. 2378.

153 A.2d 663 (1959)

Charles SHELTON, Appellant, v. Frankie SHELTON, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided July 28, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Brown, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

George H. Windsor, Washington, D. C., with whom George E. C. Hayes and Cobb, Howard, Hayes & Windsor, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellee wife was awarded a divorce and alimony of $25 per week. The husband has appealed but questions only the award of alimony, which he says was "not only excessive and totally unwarranted but it was punitive." Basic in his argument is the contention that no able-bodied woman, capable of supporting herself, should be awarded alimony, that to do so will result in an "army of alimony drones."

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