Stringfellow v. Stringfellow

On an application by a wife for support money, suit money, and a partial payment of attorney’s fees pending an appeal, the trial court entered an order denying the application. This court issued a writ of certiorari to review that order.

The community property accumulated during some twenty-nine years is conceded to have a value considerably in excess of one million dollars and perhaps close to two million. After a three-weeks trial the wife was awarded a divorce and a substantial property settlement of an aggregate value of approximately nine hundred thousand dollars; this included certain…