State ex rel. Brown v. Brown

Citations

• 31 Wash. 397
• 62 L.R.A. 974
• 72 P. 86
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 642

Syllabus

<p>JUDGMENT-REVOCATION BEFORE ENTRY-POWER OF COURT.</p> <p>Under Bal. Code, § 5119, which provides that “all judgments shall be entered by the clerk, subject to the direction of the court,” an order of the court though signed and handed to the clerk for entry, does not become a finality until its actual entry, but may be recalled, and modified or annulled, at any time before it has been spread upon the journal.</p> <p>ALIMONY — ‘EFFECT OF REMARRIAGE OF PARTY BOUND TO PAY.</p> <p>The subsequent remarriage of a divorced husband will not relieve him from the obligation of a decree to pay alimony for the support of his divorced wife and minor child, even if the additional burdens imposed by such remarriage tend to exhaust his earnings, since his divorced wife and child have a prior claim thereon, until the modification of the decree in a direct proceeding therefor.</p>