Legal Opinion

Cotton v. Wright

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 26, 1939No. 35271PublishedCited by 58 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ODOM, Justice.

In the early part of 1937, plaintiff sued her husband for separation from bed. and board, and as an incident of the suit prayed for alimony pendente lite, under Article 148 of the Revised Civil Code.

On March 12, 1937, the trial judge ordered defendant to pay plaintiff $19.85 per week as alimony for the support of herself and the two minor children of the marriage. The defendant appealed from the judgment ordering him to pay alimony, and the judgment was affirmed by this court on March 7, 1938, and rehearing was denied on April 4, 1938. 189 La. 686, 180 So. 487.

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2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Snow v. SnowSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1937
  2. Wright v. WrightSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1938
  3. State ex rel. Huber v. KingSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1897
  4. Baker v. JewellSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
  5. Cotton v. WrightSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1938

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3Cited by58 opinions

  1. Halcomb v. HalcombSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1977
  2. Briggs v. BriggsOregon Supreme Court · 1945
  3. Thornton v. FloydSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
  4. Whitman v. WhitmanIndiana Court of Appeals · 1980
  5. Fazzio v. KriegerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1954

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