Hunt v. Hunt

MOREMEN, Chief Justice.

Appellee, Thomas Hunt, was granted an absolute divorce in the Pike Circuit Court from Dorothy Hunt ending a marriage of over ten years. The appellant was awarded alimony in the sum of $1,000 and an attorney’s fee in the amount of $150. We are presented with the question of whether these amounts are adequate in the light of the particular facts of this case.

When the divorce was granted appellant was thirty-one years of age and appellee was eighty-one. The appellant had defective eyesight amounting to industrial blindness, and appellee was totally unable to work.…