Meo v. Meo

This is an application for alimony and counsel fees pendente lite, in an action brought by the wife against the husband, and to annul the -marriage on the ground of fraud. The defendant resists the motion on the ground of want of power and jurisdiction in the court to grant any alimony or counsel fee in an action of this nature. The plaintiff contends that, whether express power is granted or not by the Code, the right to give the relief in cases of this character rests upon the incidental powers formerly vested in the *570court of chancery, to which the supreme court has succeeded, an'd that an…