McClure

By interlocutory and final decrees of divorce the Superior Court of Marin County awarded plaintiff Vashta McClure alimony in the sum of $100 a month. Thereafter, on March 4, 1927,'almost four years and a half after entry of the final decree, said court modified the provision for alimony by relieving defendant Richard Alfred McClure from thereafter paying any sum whatever for the support of plaintiff. On October 26, 1934, the court decreed that defendant should pay plaintiff the sum of $30 a month for her support thereafter. Defendant appeals from said order of October 26th, and also from an order which allowed plaintiff $50 costs and $150 attorney fees to be paid if defendant prosecuted an appeal from the order of October 26th.

The parties were married on June 6, 1919, and separated approximately two years thereafter on July 30, 1921. Defendant was twenty-six years of age when he married plaintiff, who was then thirty-five. At the time of the marriage defendant was an officer in the United .States army, and he has continued in that profession. No children were born of the marriage. Plaintiff procured the' divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty inflicting grievous mental…