Case Name: Wainwright v. Morrow, administrator, et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1935-01-18
Citations: 180 Ga. 120
Docket Number: No. 10183
Parties: Wainwright v. Morrow, administrator, et al.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 180
Pages: 120–120

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.