Lindenschmidt v. Lindenschmidt
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Hon. James A. Seddon, Judge. A wife forfeits her right to support by abandoning the husband. Williams v. Prince, 3 Strob. 493; Angelo v. Angelo, 81 111. 255 ; Allen v. Aldrich, 29 N. H. 73; Brown v. Patton, 3 Humph. 137. Or dwelling separate from him without his consent or fault.
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Hon. James A. Seddon, Judge. A wife forfeits her right to support by abandoning the husband. Williams v. Prince, 3 Strob. 493; Angelo v. Angelo, 81 111. 255 ; Allen v. Aldrich, 29 N. H. 73; Brown v. Patton, 3 Humph. 137. Or dwelling separate from him without his consent or fault. Bchindel v. Bchindel, 12 Md. 314; Rutherford v. Ooxe, 11 Mo. 353; Thorne v. Kathan, 51 Vt. 523. She cannot maintain a suit for maintenance and support when she is in fault. Angelo ®. Angelo, 81 111. 251; Boggess v. Boggess, 4 Dana, 307. Or if she left him without proper cause.…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This action is brought by a wife against her husband for maintenance. A hearing in the circuit court resulted *297in a decree in her favor in the sum of $43.35 per month. This was based on the view that she was entitled to ten dollars a week, which was the utmost amount which she claimed. The parties were married on the twentieth of October, 1886, and lived together until the twenty-first of January, 1887, just three months and one day, when they finally separated, under the circumstances hereafter stated. At the time of the marriage the husband was about thirty years of age, and lived with his…
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