Pearson v. Pearson

The question to be decided is whether a divorce decree should be modified by terminating support payments by the husband for two children now 18 and alleged to be self-supporting.

Defendant-husband’s application for modification of the decree, submitted on stipulated facts to the same judge who granted the divorce, was denied. Defendant has appealed. "We affirm the decision.

Plaintiff Winifred J. Pearson was granted a divorce from defendant Leslie D. Pearson September 9, 1953, on the ground commonly called cruel and inhuman treatment. The statute, however, defines the ground .as “such inhuman…