Laughridge v. Laughridge

Candler, Justice.

A decree dissolving the marriage between Mary Louise Laughridge and A. G. Laughridge was rendered in the Superior Court of Fulton County on November 4, 1944. The decree also required the divorced husband to pay his divorced wife “the sum of $150.00 per month as permanent alimony, same to begin immediately and to be paid her for her natural life unless she should sooner remarry.” There is no language in the decree which expressly or by necessary implication requires payment of the installments after the death of A. G. Laughridge. Such payments were regularly made by A. G.…