Ashford v. Ashford

This is on the motion of Edna Mae Ashford, defendant-respondent, for an allowance of attorney’s fees for services in preparing her brief and appearance of her counsel in this court in a pending appeal in a suit for divorce wherein the defendant wife prevailed in the lower court.

The application of the respondent is settled by the authority of Edwards v. Edwards, 191 Or 275, 281 et seq. 227 P2d 975, where we held that this court is without authority to make such an allowance. We there said, at page 284:

“We realize that the rule to which we adhere may at times work some hardship so far as the…