Merrill v. Merrill

This is an original attachment suit brought by Hattie S. Merrill against her former husband, William Raymond Merrill, under the following circumstances: The parties, then being residents of the State of Alabama, were divorced in the circuit court in equity of Colbert County in that state in 1944. The husband, defendant here, was ordered to pay the sum of $20 per month for the support of the two minor children whose custody was awarded to the mother. Some time later the mother moved to Knoxville, where she was employed, and by this suit seeks to recover the sum of $350.80 from defendant for…