Elder v. Hogg

Hall, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying the former husband’s right to specific performance of an agreement with the former wife, which was recited in their divorce decree, to recover 152 shares of stock or alternatively money damages.

The parties were divorced in 1973. Previously, they entered into an agreement settling matters of support, alimony and division of property. The agreement was made part of the decree. The provision in dispute here provided that the husband would transfer 304 shares of specified stock to the wife, and that should the wife remarry while the husband…