Crews v. Mooney
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal, from Barry Circuit Court. — Hon. "W. E. Geiger, Judge. The statute prescribes the manner of enforcing the payment of alimony by security, and provides that when it is in gross the judgment shall be a general lien on the realty of defendant; (R. S. 1879, §§ 2179, 2180;) and no court has power to render any other or different judgment, or to provide or authorize any other mode of enforcing payment of alimony.
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Appeal, from Barry Circuit Court. — Hon. "W. E. Geiger, Judge. The statute prescribes the manner of enforcing the payment of alimony by security, and provides that when it is in gross the judgment shall be a general lien on the realty of defendant; (R. S. 1879, §§ 2179, 2180;) and no court has power to render any other or different judgment, or to provide or authorize any other mode of enforcing payment of alimony. The Audrain circuit court had no jurisdiction to decree to the plaintiff’ the title to specific personal property as alimony in her divorce suit against the defendant. To this…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, C. J.
Mary B. Mooney, now Crews, brought replevin against defendant, her former husband, for certain articles of personal property: a piano, sewing machine, pony, etc., which were decreed to her by the Audrain circuit court, as alimony in gross, in a suit for divorce brought by the wife against her then husband, in which suit a final *28decree was rendered, both, parties being present in person and by attorney. Such final decree also gave to the wife the care and custody of her infant child, and ordered that the defendant pay to the plaintiff $120 annually, for the support and maintenance of such…
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