Campbell v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Alimony. Husband and'Wife. Jurisdiction. Continuance. Before Judge TOMKINS. Chatham Superior Court. December Term, 1881. Mrs. Annie Louise Campbell, on behalf of herself and her child, five years of age, filed her bill in Chatham superior court against her husband, W'illiarti' Campbell, to recover permanent alimony. She also applied for temporary alimony pending the case for permanent alimony.
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Alimony. Husband and'Wife. Jurisdiction. Continuance. Before Judge TOMKINS. Chatham Superior Court. December Term, 1881. Mrs. Annie Louise Campbell, on behalf of herself and her child, five years of age, filed her bill in Chatham superior court against her husband, W'illiarti' Campbell, to recover permanent alimony. She also applied for temporary alimony pending the case for permanent alimony. The bill and the testimony introduced by her in support of the application for temporary alimony'made, in brief, the following case: She was married to Campbell in 1875, and they lived together in-New…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The main position on which the able counsel for plaintiff in error rested his Case, is the want of jurisdiction in the superior court of Chatham county. Of course if the court had no jurisdiction, the cornerstone of the entire proceeding sinks into nothing, and all built upon it falls with it. Had the chancellor jurisdiction ? '
The case made here is an application for temporary alimony, growing out of a bill filed for permanent alimony, and if the bill for permanent alimony did not" lie for want of jurisdiction to. render a decree thereon, the sap that passes from this…
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