Duncan v. Duncan

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court for King county denying defendant’s petition to modify the provisions for alimony as contained in an interlocutory order of divorce entered seven years previously.

Appellant, James B. W. Duncan, and respondent, Hazel Bervin Duncan, were united in marriage on August 3, 1920. A child, Barbara Jean, was born to them in 1927.

On October 10, 1938, respondent instituted an action for divorce from appellant, on the grounds of cruelty and abandonment. Appellant defaulted in the action. Prior to the hearing of the cause, however, respondent and…