Morris v. Padgett

Hall, Justice.

This appeal involves a dispute between a former husband and wife over whether a certain paragraph of the property agreement incorporated into their decree of divorce provided for alimony or constituted a property settlement. He contends that it is alimony, and that her remarriage has terminated his liability. Upon his failure to pay, she brought an application for contempt against him. The item in question, paragraph 7, provided that the wife should have fee simple title to the house, but the husband "shall continue to make the monthly installments on the outstanding…