Lake v. Lake
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Coiirt of the Second Judicial District, Washoe County. The facts appear in the opinion. I. In all cases where a party'has an attorney in the action or proceeding, the service of papers when required shall be on the attorney, instead of the party. (Griffith v. Gruner, 47 Cal; G44.) II. The court had before ordered tbe payment, of counsel fee generally in the case, and by such order had compensated the service and exhausted its power.
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Appeal from the District Coiirt of the Second Judicial District, Washoe County. The facts appear in the opinion. I. In all cases where a party'has an attorney in the action or proceeding, the service of papers when required shall be on the attorney, instead of the party. (Griffith v. Gruner, 47 Cal; G44.) II. The court had before ordered tbe payment, of counsel fee generally in the case, and by such order had compensated the service and exhausted its power. (Divorce Act, sec. 27;'2 Bish. Max’, and Div. 416; Wilder. Wilde, 2 Nev. 306.) III. There was no motion for new trial pending when the…
1Opinion of the Court
By tbe Court,
Belknap, J.:
In a suit for divorce between tbe parties hereto, a decree was entered in favor of tbe plaintiff, dissolving tbe bonds of matrimony between herself and defendant, and awarding ber tbe custody of their offspring, but adjudging a la,rge estate, claimed by plaintiff as community property, to be tbe separate property of tbe .defendant husband.
Dissatisfied with tbe portion of tbe decree touching tbe question of property, and desiring to proceed further thereupon, and being destitute of means, tbe district court ordered defendant to pay plaintiff’s attorney for services to…
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