Peacock v. Peacock

BARNS, J.:

This is a proceeding in certiorari to review an interlocutory order in equity.

In 1929 petitioner filed his bill of complaint for divorce against respondent and, in the same year, the respondent-wife answered and thereafter, on December 30,1929, the chancellor entered an award for temporary alimony in the sum of $20.00 per week.

No further proceedings appear to have been had in the divorce case and the cause was allowed to lie dormant until July 10, 1946, when the respondent filed her petition, setting up that there was $17,160.00 due and unpaid on the temporary award of alimony and…