Moore v. Moore

This is one of the rare appeals from an award of alimony pendente lite. The appellant-wife was awarded $100 per week, as temporary alimony by Judge Marbury in June of' 1956. Upon a petition to reduce this award upon the ground of changed circumstances, Judge Dorsey, in March of 1958, reduced the same to eighty dollars per week, and the wife-has appealed.

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The appellant first contends that the husband was not entitled to a rehearing on the question of the amount of temporary alimony because he had not prosecuted his suit, but the failure to prosecute the suit to a final conclusion is no reason…