145 Wis. 261 | Wis. | 1911
On the 8th day of August, 1908, a judgment of divorce was granted to the plaintiff from the defendant, wherein, pursuant to a stipulation between the parties, it was adjudged that the defendant should pay the sum of $23 per month to plaintiff for her support and that of their infant child, about five years of age. She was also given the household furniture. At the time of the divorce the defendant, who was a railroad conductor, was earning from $100 to $150 per month. Afterward the defendant obtained an order to show cause why the provision in the judgment relating to alimony should not be modified by requiring a less sum to be paid. The defendant, in the affidavit upon which the motion was based, alleged that he remarried; that he owned no property whatever; that he was thirty-five years old, a railroad
Upon substantially this proof the court entered an order modifying the allowance of alimony from $23 per month to $18 per month, and we are asked to reverse it. The amount to be allowed was a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court, and we cannot set aside the order unless there was an abuse of such discretion. The decision of the trial court in the allowance of alimony will not be disturbed unless manifestly unjust. Hooper v. Hooper, 102 Wis. 598, 600, 78 N. W. 753; Van Trott v. Van Trott, 118 Wis. 29, 94 N. W. 798. We are unable to say that there was any abuse of discretion or that the allowance made was manifestly unjust, and the order must therefore be affirmed.
By the Court. — Order affirmed.