Methvin v. Methvin
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Twiggs Superior Court. Application for ali-. mony. Decided by Judge Powers, September Term, 1853. Mary a Methvin commenced her libel for divorce against her husband, William Methvin, in Twiggs Superior Court,, pending which she filed a bill of ne exeat, and made application for temporary alimony and counsel fees.
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In Equity, in Twiggs Superior Court. Application for ali-. mony. Decided by Judge Powers, September Term, 1853. Mary a Methvin commenced her libel for divorce against her husband, William Methvin, in Twiggs Superior Court,, pending which she filed a bill of ne exeat, and made application for temporary alimony and counsel fees. To this application defendant filed his answer, in substance, as follows : “ He admitted his intermarriage with the petitioner, in the year 1827; that at the time of the separation in 1829, he allowed her to keep all the property which had been given her by her1 father,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Starnes J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] In the case of McGee vs. McGee, (10 Ga. R. 477,) it was decided that pur Superior Courts have the power which the Ecclesiastical Courts had in England, to grant alimony pendente lite, as incidental to their right to entertain the suit for divorce.
In these Courts it was not the practice, very strictly, to scrutinize the conduct of a wife, for the purpose of determining her right to temporary alimony. This allowance was made, almost as matter of course, upon a proof of marriage and pendancy of suit for divorce. (2 Burn’s Ecc. L. 433, 436. 2…
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