Rhodes v. Rhodes
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as an equity court,-requiring him to pay alimony to the plaintiff and directing his commitment as for contempt in case of default. . The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a decree of the supreme court of the District ordering the appellant, Daniel Rhodes, to make payment of alimony to the appellee, Mary E. Rhodes, and ordering…
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as an equity court,-requiring him to pay alimony to the plaintiff and directing his commitment as for contempt in case of default. . The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a decree of the supreme court of the District ordering the appellant, Daniel Rhodes, to make payment of alimony to the appellee, Mary E. Rhodes, and ordering his commitment for contempt of court in case of default. The petition of Mary E. Rhodes, filed May 26, 1910, alleged the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
1. The first assignment of error raises the question of the power of the equity court to make the decree for permanent alimony, the enforcement of which was sought in this proceeding. The jurisdiction of a court of equity, in this District, to grant alimony as an independent relief was declared in Tolman v. Tolman, 1 App. D. C. 299-311. Since that decision the power has been directly conferred by the Code, see. 980 (31 Stat. at L. 1346, chap. 854). By the terms of this section the court may declare that the husband shall pay the wife “periodically, such sums as would be allowed to her, as…
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