McCaddin v. McCaddin

This is an appeal from a decree allowing the appellee seven dollars and fifty cents per week as permanent alimony and also counsel fees. The bill does not pray for a divorce, but only for temporary, alimony, pendente lite, permanent alimony and counsel fees. There is no question in this State about the power of a Court of Chancery to entertain an application by a wife against her husband for alimony, although she does not ask for a decree of divorce. As recently as Taylor v. Taylor, 108 Md. 129, such a suit was entertained, and there are a number of other decisions by us and our predecessors,…