Brindley v. Brindley
Supreme Court of Alabama
, Appeal from the Chancery Court of Cullman. Heard before the Hon.. Wm. H. Simpson. Annie Brindley filed her bill against her husband for the allowance of-alimony without the granting of a divorce. The chancellor entered a decree for temporary allowance pending the suit.
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, Appeal from the Chancery Court of Cullman. Heard before the Hon.. Wm. H. Simpson. Annie Brindley filed her bill against her husband for the allowance of-alimony without the granting of a divorce. The chancellor entered a decree for temporary allowance pending the suit. The final decree was adverse to the complainant, but the court determined that the preceding order for alimony should stand as a matter of right in the complainant; and further decreed the 'sale of the property of the defendant to pay it. Defendant appealed from this decree. (1). In a suit for alimony Avithout divorce the…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
— It is firmly settled by the decisions of this court, in consonance with the decisions of the *431courts of other States, — although it may be that the ■weight of authority iu England, and this country is opposed to the doctrine — that courts of equity have jurisdiction to grant alimony to a. married woman in the nature of maintenance, unconnected with any proceedings for divorce.—Hinds v. Hinds, 80 Ala. 225; Murray v. Murray, 84 Ala. 363; Brindley v. Brindley, 115 Ala. 474.
In this State, we have no statute providing for alimony disconnected with a suit for divorce, and as for independent…
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