Case Name: Wager v. Wager
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1945-01-05
Citations: 198 Ga. 747
Docket Number: No. 15048
Parties: Wager v. Wager.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 198
Pages: 747–747

Head Matter:
Wager v. Wager.
No. 15048.
January 5, 1945.
0. Lee White, for plaintiff in error. Phillips dt Stewart, contra.

Opinion:
Atkinson, Justice.
A verdict granting both parties a total divorce, and awarding the wife as permanent alimony $500, payable in ten monthly installments of $50 each, and a described house and lot which the parties had jointly purchased for $4400, and on which there were unpaid purchase-money notes amounting to $3600, is not excessive as a matter of law, where the wife, in addition to making a down payment of $300 on the house and lot, advanced to the husband $840, being approximately half of the money necessary to put him in business as a used-car dealer, and where, from her salary of $110 per month, she paid all household expenses, amounting to between $60 and $70 a month, while the husband out of $1400 a year, realized from the used-car business, paid the monthly notes on the house and lot of $29.50 each.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.