Van Loon v. Van Loon

In a decree of divorce granted in 1929 to the wife, Isabel Van Loon, on the ground of habitual indulgence in violent and ungovernable temper by the husband towards the wife, it is ordered “that the plaintiff be and she is hereby awarded the sum of $50.00 per month as permanent alimony,” to be paid by the defendant, W. E. Van Loon.

In 1936 Isabel Van Loon filed a Petition in the cause in which she in effect alleged that W. E. Van Loon paid three installments of the alimony decreed and “that said defendant is now in default for 81 months or in the total sum of $4,050.00.”

The petition contains…