Ferris v. Ferris

Almand, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from an order denying the defendant’s motion for a summary judgment, which order was certified by the trial judge for review by direct appeal.

Helen E. Ferris filed her complaint against her former husband, Harold A. Ferris, seeking modification of a final decree for permanent alimony. An agreement between the parties where the defendant agreed to pay her $600 per month as alimony, was incorporated into the final decree. She prayed that the decree of December 1963, be modified so as to increase the amount of alimony, on the basis that the defendant’s…