Johns v. Johns

This is an appeal by the former husband of respondent (whose name is now Barbara L. Foster) from an order of the Superior Court of King County dismissing his petition to modify a default decree of divorce granted him by the Superior Court of Grays Harbor County on December 13, 1957.

Appellant’s petition (filed June 15, 1962) alleged that, by the original divorce decree, he was ordered to pay $40 per month for the support of a daughter (the older of two children who were born during the period of their marriage, which took place in Seattle in May, 1954). It was further alleged that he had…