Parkhurst

This is an appeal by the defendant from an order of the superior court in and for the county of Santa Clara, refusing to modify a decree of divorce, and to allow defendant one hundred dollars per month for the care, custody, and maintenance of Herbert N. and Minnie A. Parkhurst, aged seventeen and fifteen years respectively, the children of the parties hereto.

The cause was heard in the court below upon the affidavits of the parties and of sundry other persons, and upon oral testimony taken in open court.

Written findings were filed, from which it appears, among other things, that by a decree of the superior court entered February 29, 1,892, the marriage which had theretofore existed between plaintiff and defendant herein was dissolved; their property divided; the defendant herein receiving real property of the value of $10,000, and plaintiff received the residue of the community property, which is of the value of $11,681.

Plaintiff was indebted at the date of the decree in the sum of $11,800, which he has since reduced to $5,358.

Defendant also possessed at that date certain other money or money invested of the value of say $3,100 (presumably her separate property), of which…