Webb v. Webb

Pending a suit for permanent alimony the plaintiff applied to the presiding judge for an order granting to her temporary alimony for the support of herself and her infant child, including expense of litigation, under the Civil Code, § 2976. Among other defenses, the defendant pleaded that he and the plaintiff were not legally married, for that the plaintiff, at the time of the alleged marriage in 1917, had a living husband from whom she had not been divorced. Upon this issue the evidence for the defendant tended to show that the plaintiff was married to E. E. William's in 1905, and that…