Mahn v. Mahn

The plaintiff and defendant are husband and wife. On the twenty-fifth day of May, 1895, the plaintiff instituted her action for divorce in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis. On the eighth day of June she made an application to the court for *376ail allowance of alimony pendente lite. Against the allowance the defendant interposed the plea that, prior 'to the institution of plaintiff’s suit, there was pending and undetermined a like action between the same parties in the circuit court of Jefferson county, wherein the defendant here was seeking to obtain a divorce. On the hearing of the…