Lovett v. Lovett

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment dismissing a petition for contempt for nonpayment of a judgment awarding temporary alimony. Although the award was in a suit for divorce in which alimony was awarded in 1944 pending the final adjudication and until the further order of the court, the statute of limitation does not run against a judgment for alimony, and the same is not dormant. Fischer v. Fischer, 164 Ga. 81 (137 SE 821); Fauver v. Hemperly, 178 Ga. 424 (173 SE 82); Williams v. Williams, 194 Ga. 332 (21 SE2d 229). But this award arose out of a suit for divorce, and under…