Ex Parte Dunlap

This is an application for the writ of mandamus to require the judge of the Tenth circuit, sitting in equity, to vacate a decree awarding to petitioner’s wife alimony pendente lite and an attorney’s fee. The bill in this cause was filed for alimony without divorce (Hinds v. Hinds, 80'Ala. 225), and this application serves the purpose of an emergency appeal to review an interlocutory decree not otherwise reviewable. Ex parte Eubank, 206 Ala. 8, 89 South. 656; Brady v. Brady, 144 Ala. 414, 39 South. 237; State ex rel. Sellers v. Locke, 208 Ala. 169, 93 South. 876.

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