Loehr v. Loehr

This is an appeal by the defendant from a decree of the Circuit Court which (1) dissolved the bonds of matrimony between the plaintiff [wife] and defendant *183[husband]; (2) adjudicated the property rights of the parties; (3) awarded to the plaintiff permanent alimony in the amount of $100 monthly; and (4) made an award to the plaintiff of $200 as compensation for her attorney.

January 3, 1943, when the plaintiff was 43 and the defendant 49 years of age, they married. The plaintiff had never been married before, but the defendant had had two previous marriages, one of which terminated in a…