Cissell v. Cissell

HITZ, Associate Justice.

This case comes here by a special appeal from a decretal order in equity of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia denying maintenance pendente lite to appellant here, who was plaintiff in that court, on the ground that her bill of complaint failed to state a cause of action for maintenance.

Filed September 30, 1931, the bill alleges that plaintiff and defendant were married in this District in 1923, where both continued to live until the suit was brought; that there are two children bom of the marriage, a boy 6 years old and a boy of several months; that…