Nixon v. Nixon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

MASON, J.:

Grace Nixon was granted a divorce from Ira Nixon. He appeals from a judgment for alimony on the ground that, being in excess of the value of the property he then owned, it was necessarily based upon his earning capacity, and was therefore unauthorized.

The appellant contends that with the granting of the divorce the marital relation, with all obligation on the part of the husband to support the wife, is absolutely terminated, and she can have no claims upon his future accumulations; that the statute embodies this view in the provision that the…