Ex parte O'Connell

This is an original petition to this Court for a mandamus directed to the judge of the circuit court of the Twenty-eighth Circuit sitting in Baldwin County, to require him to vacate an interlocutory order providing for the maintenance pendente lite of Mrs. Eva B. O’Connell in a suit in equity wherein she is complainant and this petitioner is respondent. In that suit maintenance without divorce is sought.

We shall treat only those contentions made in brief for the petitioner. There is no brief on file for the respondent.

A plea in abatement was filed by respondent asserting that neither the…