Fennessy v. Fennessy
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by thé defendant, Gertrude Victoria Fennessy, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8tli day of January, 1906, granting the plaintiff’s motion for a preference.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action for divorce. On the-11th day - óf December, 1905, the court on the application of the defendant made gri order requiring the plaintiff to pay, one. hundred .dollars counsel fee and ten. dollars, per week alimony until the further-order of the court. The inotion for a preference was -based on. subdivision-13 of section 791 of the Code of Civil Procedure which authorizes a preference in an action for divorce wFen temporary, alimony has been allowed.' The opposing - affidavits show that the 'order of the court, which" was duly served on the attorney on. the twelfth…
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