Hintz v. Wayne Circuit Judge

The part of the order for temporary alimony requiring defendant "to make all payments and properly finance all arrearages upon the premises occupied by plaintiff" was in excess of power in the court and a nullity.

We are advised by the record that it will require the sum of upward of $5,000 to finance such property against immediate existing grounds of forfeiture and loss

Judicial power to decree divorce and all interlocutory proceedings, inclusive of temporary alimony, expense money, and counsel fees, is purely statutory, and the ordinary principles of equity jurisdiction do not obtain. That…