Spencer v. Lawler

On August 25, 1884, in an action pending between plaintiff and his wife in the superior court, the bonds of matrimony existing between the parties were dissolved, and Spencer, the plaintiff herein, was ordered to pay to his wife the sum of fifty dollars per month alimony. The decree was, on May 13, 1887, so modified as to require him to pay the sum of twenty-five dollars per month. On December 24,1888, Mrs. Spencer presented to and filed in the court below an affidavit alleging that nothing had been paid to her under the modified decree for alimony for over six months prior to that date,…