Thomas v. Thomas

Southern California Edison Company, as third party, appeals from an order in a supplementary proceeding (Code Civ. Proc., § 719) 1 directing it to pay an employee’s pension installment to the employee’s former wife in partial satisfaction of support payments due her under a final judgment of divorce. The employee (the judgment debtor) did not appear in the supplementary proceedings; at that time his whereabouts was unknown, and the record is devoid of evidence that he is still alive.

The salient background facts are as follows: Mrs. Thomas secured a final judgment of divorce on March 23, 1945;…