Beasley v. Beasley

Lyle Brown, Justice.

The chancellor refused to grant relief to Molton Beasley, appellant, from an alimony award in favor of Beasley’s former wife, Christine Beasley, appellee. Pleas by the former husband (1) that Mrs. Beasley had remarried, (2) that Mr. Beasley had lost several weeks of work from illness, and (3) that Beasley himself had remarried, were not persuasive to the chancellor. The single point on appeal is that the court erred in not terminating, or at least reducing, the alimony.

The findings set forth in the decree of divorce handed down in April 1968 are significant. Mrs. Beasley…