Ward v. Ward

This is an appeal from an order of the district court in a divorce action requiring the defendant husband to pay, to the attorney for the plaintiff wife, additional attorney’s fees in the sum of $1,000, the sum of $200 having been theretofore paid. The attorney contends that the allowance is inadequate and that he should have been awarded the sum of $3,764.75, including costs.

From the record it appears that Kathleen and Harry H. Ward were married in Minnesota in 1948. They moved to Texas, where the defendant was employed as a geologist for the Standard Oil Company. Two children were born to…