Holleman v. Holleman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Alimony. Husband and Wife. Before Judge SIMMONS. Houston Superior Court. April Term, 1882. Mrs. Holleman filed a bill against hef husband for permanent alimony, and pending the case, filed her petition for temporary alimony. This was granted July 4, 1879, and the defendant was ordered to pay to the complainant twenty dollars per month.
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Alimony. Husband and Wife. Before Judge SIMMONS. Houston Superior Court. April Term, 1882. Mrs. Holleman filed a bill against hef husband for permanent alimony, and pending the case, filed her petition for temporary alimony. This was granted July 4, 1879, and the defendant was ordered to pay to the complainant twenty dollars per month. On April 22, 1880, the main case was tried, and resulted in a verdict and judgment vesting in the wife one-half of the property of the husband described therein. To this judgment the defendant excepted, and carried the case to the Supreme Court, where the…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The sole point for review made in this record is, whether temporary alimony, pending an action for permanent alimony, ceases with the verdict and judgment in the superior court, or continues until the termination of the litigation in this court by an affirmance of the judgment below.
By section i737of our Code, temporary alimony may be granted in applications for permanent alimony as well as suits for divorce, pending the cause. The cause is pending just as long as it is litigated, whether in the superior court or in this court, and the language of the statute settles…
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