Compton v. Compton

The decree of the Chancery Court of Hinds county, herein appealed from, is for past-due monthly installments of alimony which had accrued unto the appellee, and is predicated on a judgment rendered in the Fifteenth District Court, Parish of Acadia, Louisiana, and duly certified under the Acts of Congress.

The. authority for the allowance of such alimony in the state of Louisiana is contained in Article 160' of the Be- vised Civil Code of the state, which is found quoted in the opinion of this court in the case of Gallant v. Gallant, 154 Miss. 832, 123 So. 883, 885, as follows: “If the wife who…