Schammel v. Schammel

Foote, C.

This is an appeal from an order granting a wife counsel fees and alimony pending an action for divorce against her husband.

The affidavits filed upon the hearing of the motion are conflicting; but it is evident that the trial judge must have arrived at the conclusion that, notwithstanding the defendant's sworn statements to the contrary, he was an unkind, cruel, and abusive husband and father; that his promises to pay a hundred dollars a month at his office, for the support of his wife and her two daughters, was not to be relied on; that his wife was sick and bedridden, and could not…