Lyon v. Lyon

WOLFE, Justice.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Fourth District Court in favor of the plaintiff for $2,750 and adjudging the enforceability of future payments to plaintiff in accordance with a prior decree of divorce rendered between the parties herein. It is necessary to a proper understanding of the case that the background and surrounding facts be related in some detail.

For some twenty-two years prior to 1945 plaintiff and defendant had lived together as husband and wife. In that year, plaintiff commenced an action for divorce against defendant, and in her complaint she…