duPont v. duPont

Tunnell,

Justice, for the majority:

This case is up from the Court of Chancery on appeal from a judgment granting separate maintenance to- a wife.1 There is no appeal from the Chancellor’s findings that the wife (here plaintiff) was abandoned without just cause and that she is in financial distress; the appeal is from the amount of the award — $300 a month — -, which the wife contends was- arrived at by misapplication of the law, and which in any case, she says, is in the circumstances so manifestly inadequate as to constitute a clear abuse of judicial discretion.

The Chancellor’s opinion, with…