Yow v. Yow

89 S.E.2d 867 (1955)

243 N.C. 79

Annie Grace YOW

v.

Earl R. YOW.

No. 393.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 9, 1955.

Royster & Royster, Oxford, for plaintiff, appellee.

Hubert H. Senter, Franklinton, and Hill Yarborough, Louisburg, for defendant, appellant.

PARKER, Justice.

This question is presented for decision: Does a decree of absolute divorce obtained by her former husband in 1951 under the two-year separation statute G.S. § 50-6 annul the right of his former wife to receive subsistence pendente lite under orders rendered in her action for alimony without divorce, G.S. § 50-16, before the…