Downing v. Downing

By the Court.

Plaintiff in error here, Helen Downing, plaintiff below, filed her petition alleging gross neglect of duty and praying “that she may be divorced from the said defendant and restored to her maiden name of Helen E. Stratton, and for such other and further relief as she may be entitled to.”

The defendant was personally served, but made default.

The trial court on June 2, 1922, rendered a decree of divorce, and “ordered, adjudged and decreed that the plaintiff be allowed the sum of two hundred dollars as alimony herein, payable five dollars per week.”

On June 29, 1922, the defendant…