Peterson v. Peterson

Plaintiff was granted an absolute divorce from defendant upon the ground of extreme cruelty, and awarded $4,500 permanent alimony, payable $75 a month beginning October 1, 1949, and continuing until paid in full. Defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled, and he appealed, assigning as error solely that the judgment for alimony was excessive under the evidence, and was an abuse of judicial discretion. • We affirm the judgment of the trial court as modified.

An appeal lodged in this court from a decree rendered in a suit for divorce brings the case here for trial de novo upon the issues…