Lee v. Lee

Simmons, Chief Justice.

Pending her suit for divorce Mrs. Lee applied to the court for temporary alimony and counsel fees, and the court ordered the husband to pay her $20 per month alimony and $25 for counsel fees. The counsel fees were paid, but the husband declined to pay the $20 per month, and paid to the clerk of the court $10 per month, which the wife refused to receive, and she moved for an attachment requiring him to pay the amount awarded to her. Upon the hearing'of this motion the court reduced the alimony to $10 per month until the next term of the court. At that term the matter was…