Zaccaria v. Beoubay

McCALEB, Justice.

The defendant has appealed suspensively from an order awarding alimony pendente lite to his wife and three children at the rate of $15 per week.

The evidence taken at the trial of the rule for alimony shows that defendant is a butcher by trade and a gambler by preference. He states that he has been out of employment because handbooks have been closed in the city of New Orleans; that a $30 per week job as a butcher was available to him but that he refused it since it required him to stand for long periods, which would be injurious to his health.

In this court, defendant’s…