Coffee v. Coffee

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal by W. M. Coffee is from an order awarding his wife, Mrs. Cledie Coffee, maintenance of $125 a month pen-dente lite. Sec. 425, Civil Code of Practice, KRS 403.060. The accumulated judgment is within the ■ jurisdiction of this court. Brandenburg v. Brandenburg, 246 Ky. 546, 55 S.W.2d 351; Ahrens v. Ahrens, 299 Ky. 497, 185 S.W.2d 694.

The appellant brought into the case the charge that his wife had attempted to kill him, for which she had 'been indicted. He claimed that she had thereby forfeited her right even to temporary maintenance. The court refused to go-…