Sullivan v. Sullivan

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

1. There has been injected into this simple citation for contempt for the non-payment of attorney’s fee in a divorce action, which most lawyers know is a part of temporary alimony, the irrelevant but clearly sound legal principle that where both parties are guilty of like conduct neither is entitled to a divorce. See Code § 30-109; Moon v. Moon, 216 Ga. 627 (3) (118 SE2d 473); Childs v. Childs, 223 Ga. 435 (156 SE2d 21). Both parties in this divorce action charged the other with cruel treatment and a verdict in favor of both had to find these allegations to be true.…