Gray v. Gray

Two appeals have been consolidated — one from an order allowing* temporary alimony and solicitor’s fees, and the other from an order denying a motion for continuance on account of the engagement of counsel and dismissing plaintiff’s complaint for divorce for failure to prosecute. The error charged in respect to the latter point is that the court had no power to proceed with the hearing on the merits until the appeal from the interlocutory order had been decided, or if it did have such power, that it abused its discretion in denying plaintiff’s motion for a continuance.

We will consider first…