Ex Parte McLendon

This is an original petition, filed here by the complainant in a divorce proceeding, seeking to review and reverse the decree of the circuit court of Jefferson County, sitting in equity, allowing alimony pendente lite and solicitor's fees, to the defendant to aid her in defending against the charges made in the bill.

The material facts, are, that the petitioner filed his bill for divorce on September 12, 1939, against Fannie Lou McLendon alleging, inter alia:

"That complainant and respondent intermarried on to-wit, October 31, 1938, in Jefferson County, Alabama, and ever since have been, and…