Webb v. Webb

1. The trial judge did not err in omitting to sustain the general demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition for alimony, even though the omission to pass upon it be construed as equivalent in effect to an order overruling it. Under section 2986 of the Civil Code of 1910, providing for a proceeding for alimony before the judge, the petition in the instant case was sufficient to withstand the general demurrer.

2. Under that section the judge of the superior court is authorized to grant such order providing' a support for the wife and minor children, if any, of the defendant husband “as he might grant…