Cowan v. Cowan
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from District Court of Arapahoe County. This is an appeal from an order of the district court awarding alimony pendente lite to the appellee, pending proceedings upon her complaint for a divorce, which she filed therein November 17, 1885. The petition for alimony makes the complaint for divorce a part thereof by reference.
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Appeal from District Court of Arapahoe County. This is an appeal from an order of the district court awarding alimony pendente lite to the appellee, pending proceedings upon her complaint for a divorce, which she filed therein November 17, 1885. The petition for alimony makes the complaint for divorce a part thereof by reference. It appears from the complaint that the parties were married February 1, 1875, and lived and cohabited together until November 13, 1881; that they have three minor children, the fruits of their marriage; and that at the time of the grievances complained of, they were…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, C. J.
The several assignments of error in this case question the validity of the order of the court below, entered June 1, 1886, allowing alimony pendente lite to the plaintiff below, Laura Cowan, alleging each provision thereof to have been unwarranted upon the law and the evidence.
A general exception was reserved to the'order, and counsel for the appellee raise the point that, under such an exception, the several provisions of the order cannot be reviewed, and that, unless the exception be sustained to the order as a whole, it must fail. Several decisions of this court, based upon a statutory…
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