Whitehead v. Whitehead

WIGGINTON, Acting Chief Judge.

Defendant husband has appealed a final decree awarding a divorce to his plaintiff wife together with permanent alimony in the sum of $610.00 a month. By his sole point on appeal appellant charges that the chancellor misconceived the legal effect of the evidence and applied to it an incorrect principle of law by awarding appellee permanent alimony, for which error he contends the decree should be reversed.

The facts are relatively brief, simple, and free from controversy. Appellee, a young lady 21 years of age, had casually known appellant, a mature man of 41…