Williams v. Williams
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Cask 65 — PETITION EQUITY— APPEAL, FROM KENTON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. Appellee could not maintain an action for alimony alone; it should have been coupled with a suit for a divorce from bed and board, ov for an absolute divorce.
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Cask 65 — PETITION EQUITY— APPEAL, FROM KENTON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. Appellee could not maintain an action for alimony alone; it should have been coupled with a suit for a divorce from bed and board, ov for an absolute divorce. (Dembitz’s Kentucky Jui'isprudence, sec. 144.) 2. The final judgment of divorce merged the judgment for maintenance of Feb. 12, 1892. (Gen. Stats., chap. 52, art. 3, secs. 6, 7.) 1. An action for alimony or maintenance is maintainable without being joined with an action for divorce. (Civil Code, secs. 420, 423; Hulett v. Hulett, 80 Ky., 364.) 2. The final judgment of…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE GEACE
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This case is brought to this court by a petition by appellee, Emma Williams, for a rehearing of this cause on a judgment rendered by' the Superior Court of Kentucky on the 5th day of December, 1894, reversing a judgment in her favor rendered by the .Kenton Circuit Court on the 3d day of April, 1893, which court, proceeding by rule, required appellant, Norman Williams, to pay to said Emma Williams sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents per month for support of herself and two infant children, same having been on her petition in that court adjudged…
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