Burr v. Burr

The instant case involves the validity of a temporary attorney’s fee allowed by the trial court in a divorce action. There is no controversy over the facts. From the record it appears that on September 1, 1950, Marguerite Burr filed a divorce action against her husband, C. W. Burr, and that she employed Miskovsky & Mis-kovsky to prosecute her action. In her petition she set out and described a considerable amount of property held by her husband which she claimed was community property, and asked the court to enter an order directing the defendant to pay to her attorneys the sum of $750 as her…