Becker v. Shapiro

SUMMERS, Justice.

Alleging that her husband, Nathan Shapiro, had been guilty of cruel treatment which rendered their living together insupportable, Esther Becker Shapiro obtained a judgment of separation from bed and board, custody of the only remaining minor child of the marital union and an award of $100.00 per week as alimony for the support and maintenance of herself and the minor child.

From this judgment the husband, on November 6, 1958, obtained an order of suspensive1 and devolutive appeal to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit.

*763According to representations of counsel to this Court, the…