Sheafe v. Sheafe
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
PETITION, for an execution to enforce the payment of alimony, and for an order changing the original decree. The petition was filed November 12,1856. The facts of the case sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtEastman, J.
At the July term, 1852, of the Superior Court,, it was ordered that the petitionee, "William IT. Sheafe, pay to the petitioner the sum of $150 annually, thereafter, as .alimony, decreed to her upon a divorce between the parties.
The petitioner now prays for an execution for $150, being the *156annual payment for July, 1856; due demand for the same having been made upon the petitionee, and payment having been refused. She also prays for a modification of the original order, and that alimony may be decreed to her in a gross sum, instead of annual payments.
The original order was in the nature of a…
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