Bernsdorff v. Bernsdorff
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Motion by the appellee for payment of her counsel fees and expenses of printing brief in a divorce proceeding. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
Pending this appeal, the appellee prays for an order requiring the appellant to pay over a sum sufficient for her counsel fees, and for printing a brief on her behalf.
As a reason for presenting the motion in this court, it is stated that two motions to the same effect were made in the trial court, but overruled without prejudice, because that court was of the opinion that the application should be made to this court. The power of the trial court to make an order for such a purpose in a divorce proceeding has been heretofore affirmed. Sparks v. Sparks, 25 App. D. C. 356. And this power, we…
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