Preston v. Preston

Mrs. Preston brought suit against her husband for both temporary and permanent alimony. The case came on for a hearing on the question of temporary alimony and attorney’s fees, and the chancellor awarded the plaintiff the sum of $20 per month as temporary alimony and $100 as counsel fees; and exception is taken to this judgment. The defendant (now plaintiff in error) insists that the judgment was error, (1) because the separation was brought about by the petitioner, (2) because the plaintiff had taken to herself “more property than she brought into the wedlock,” (3) that she had accepted a…