Correra v. Correra

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

WILDER, J.

This is a question reserved by a circuit judge to ascertain whether in a divorce suit on the ground of failure to provide, *327which was proved, the libellee may be ordered to pay to the libellant permanent alimony or, in the words of the statute, a “suitable allowance.”

The statute in question is as follows:

“Upon granting a divorce for the adultery or other offense amounting thereto, of the husband, the judge may make such further decree or order against the defendant, compelling him to provide for the maintenance of the children of the marriage, ' and to provide…