WOOD v. ATKINSON

28071.

231 Ga. 271 (1973)

201 S.E.2d 394

WOOD v. ATKINSON.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 25, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vaughn & Barksdale, Sidney L. Nation, for appellant.

Smith, Cohen, Ringel, Kohler, Martin & Lowe, A. Jay Schwartz, for appellee.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Alfred L. Evans, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Wayne P. Yancey, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, amicus curiae.


GUNTER, Justice.

This appeal involves one essential issue: whether that part of Code § 30-204 which provides that an alimony judgment may be enforced by writ of fieri facias is constitutional or unconstitutional.

In 1959 the appellee obtained an alimony judgment, payable in instalments, against appellant. In 1970 the appellee presented to the clerk of court in which the alimony judgment had been rendered her affidavit showing the total amount due pursuant...

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