Tooley v. Pennison

JOHNSON, Judge.

The particular phase of this much litigated divorce suit with which we are now concerned is the opposition of counsel for defendant (the husband) to the judgment of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, which judgment included the fee of the attorney for plaintiff (the wife) in the tableaux distributing money belonging to the community estate toward the payment of community debts. From that judgment counsel for defendant and another creditor appealed.

It is unnecessary to recite the long chronology of trials and appeals which brings us to this dispute. Suffice it…