Benedict v. Holmes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, I.

The object of the suit in the respondent court was a recovery by the plaintiffs of the sum of two thousand dollars from the defendant, as the amount of their attorneys fees incurred by his wife in a suit for separation from bed and board and of property against him, and wherein she obtained a final judgment of this court on both of her demands; but the result of that suit was adverse to their claims and pretentions, the same having been disallowed by the respondent court on the ground that the wife had not the power, or legal right, to…