Krauss v. Krauss
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This is an appeal from an order of the court of chancery by .which the appellant, Gustav A. Krauss, upon certain terms and conditions, was relieved and purged of his contempt and discharged from imprisonment under an attachment theretofore issued against him for disobeying a decree of the court of chancery, which ordered him to pay alimony to his wife.
1Opinion of the Court
*418The opinion of the court was delivered by
Reed, J.
The situation when the order appealed from was- made was as follows: The wife of the appellant had filed a bill in the court of chancery to compel her jiusband to pay her alimony. In the suit so begun, a decree was made that Krauss should pay the costs of the suit, a counsel fee to his wife’s solicitor and should pay his wife $100 per month. Krauss paid nothing, but left this state, wandering through the south and southwest, until he reached South Dakota, where he brought a suit to divorce his wife and obtained a decree therein. lie then…
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- Flanders v. Town of MerrimacWisconsin Supreme Court · 1878
- Tupper v. KilduffMichigan Supreme Court · 1873
- Moore v. WilliamsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1889
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