Andrews v. Andrews

Opinion of the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

Affirming.

Appellant instituted this action against appellee for ' divorce, upon the grounds of abandonment and cruel and inhuman treatment. Appellee counterclaimed for alimony, but did not seek a divorce. The Chancellor dismissed the petition, awarded appellee alimony in the amount of Twenty-Five Dollars ($25) per month, and allowed her attorney of record a fee of Fifty Dollars ($50), to he taxed as costs against appellant.

Appellant is seventy-five years of age, appellee fifty-five. They were married in the year 1930. In the early part of the year…