Biggs v. Moats

Maxwell, Judge:

This is a proceeding in mandamus involving a suit money allowance to a woman to enable her to prosecute in this Court an appeal from an adverse decree in respect of alimony, entered in a divorce case.

The relator, Carrie Beatrice Biggs, and Charles Jefferson Biggs were husband and wife. In a divorce suit instituted by her in the circuit court of Wood County she was decreed, January 14, 1932, a divorce from her husband from the bond of matrimony. In the same decree, she was awarded monthly alimony of $75.00, later reduced by the court to $50.00.

In June, 1934, the alimony payments…