Bedingfield v. Bedingfield

Mobley, Justice.

Dorothy Chafin Bedingfield filed in DeKalb Superior Court, against her husband Leonard Aaron Bedingfield, a petition for divorce on the ground of cruel treatment. A jury trial having been waived, the court entered a judgment on June 4, 1954, granting a total divorce, and awarding $275 as permanent alimony and $100 as attorney’s fees. The husband did not make a motion to modify or set aside the judgment within thirty days of the divorce, but filed a motion for new trial on July 12, 1954, which was subsequently amended. To an order denying the amended motion for new trial the…