Seidl v. Seidl

Plaintiff wife, having with the permission of this court instituted an action for an annulment of marriage based upon defendant husband’s incurable insanity for more than five years past (Domestic Delations Law, § 7, subd. 5), moves for an order allowing her a counsel fee payable out of the funds of the defendant incompetent’s estate and also directing that the fees of the three examining physicians and the special guardian, upon being fixed by the trial court, be paid out of the defendant’s estate.

Jurisdiction over the person and the property of the defendant has been acquired; and his…