Shivers v. Shivers

Head, Justice.

1. Ground 1 of the amended motion for new trial assigns as error the refusal of the court to admit in evidence a former decree of divorce between the parties, wherein the wife was awarded permanent alimony in the sum of $125 per month. In paragraph 3 of the petition it was alleged that the parties had been previously married and divorced. In paragraph 13 of her answer the defendant alleged that, in the former divorce action, she was awarded alimony in the sum stated; that the plain*537tiff remarried her for the purpose of terminating the alimony decree; that he never intended for…