Mays v. Mays

The Circuit Court for Carroll County awarded the wife in this suit for divorce and alimony a decree of divorce a vinculo and alimony of $10.00 per week. The husband appeals only from the award of alimony.

His contention in brief is that the wife has net earnings of $34.25 a week, that he has trouble with his back and is unable to work much or to earn much, that he has substantial debts and few assets, and that the award is excessive.

In October, 1961, the husband went on a seventeen-day hunting trip in the mountains of West Virginia. He was accompanied on this trip by a woman with whom he…