Murphy v. Murphy

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Coleman P. Murphy, having appealed from a judgment in favor of his wife, Freda Jones Murphy, decreeing a separation from bed and board and ordering him to pay alimony pendente lite of $60 a month, filed in this Court shortly before the date set for argument of his appeal an “Exception of No Cause of Action and/or Plea in Abatement and Estoppel,” based on the fact that his wife, while this case was pending here on appeal, secured a judgment of absolute divorce from him on the ground of two years separation —his contention being that since a suit for…