PATTON v. PATTON

No. 2994.

179 A.2d 912 (1962)

Orion E. PATTON, Appellant, v. Helen PATTON, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided April 19, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurine H. Abernathy, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Fred C. Sacks, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, QUINN, Associate Judge, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).


CAYTON, Judge.

Claiming "change of circumstance," appellant husband filed a motion to vacate a support order which had been entered some 17 months earlier. There was a two-day hearing at which the parties and several witnesses were heard, and a mass of documentary evidence was received. The trial judge filed a memorandum overruling the motion. A few days later defendant filed a motion for rehearing, based on newly discovered evidence. After hearing, that motion was...

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