Case ID: ga_180/html/0120-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hutcheson, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wainwright v. Morrow, administrator, et al.
    
    No. 10183.
    January 18, 1935.
    
      L. M. Wyatt, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Dulce Davis, E. T. Moon, Henry Reeves, and R. W. Marlin, contra.
   Hutcheson, Justice.

1. An allowance of the statutory year’s support to a widow and children, or a widow, or children, is superior to the lien of a judgment for alimony.

2. While a judgment for alimony, payable in monthly installments of money, creating a special lien on land may not be classed as an ordinary debt, being more than such a debt, it is a debt within the meaning of the Civil Code of 1910, §§ 4000, 4041, providing that a year’s support to the family of the deceased shall be “preferred over all other debts.”

3. In the present case the court erred in decreeing that the lien for alimony of a divorced wife of the deceased was superior to a year’s support for his widow and children by a secojid marriage.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur.