Alcorn v. Alcorn

Smith, J.,

(after stating the facts). Many cases cited in the brief of counsel for appellee and cross-appellant support the statement of law found in 46 C. J., page 1261, at § 38 of the chapter on Parent and Child, to the effect that a father who is able to do so is bound to maintain and educate his children at his own expense, although the children may have property of their own sufficient for the purpose. A number of cases are cited in the note to the text which support it. This duty is said, in 20 R. C. L., page 622, at § 30 of the chapter on Parent and Child, to be correlative to the…