Williams v. Williams
New York Court of Chancery
• Upon an,application of the wife, who was the defendant ip■this suit for a divorce, for an allowance for ad interim alimony,., and an allowance tq enable her to defend the suit, the corn-. , plain ant read affidavits to show that he had recovered in aii action of crim. con. against-the alleged paramour of the defendant. But the vice chancellor made the usual órdéf; 'from which the complainant appealed'to the éháncellor.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
This is an appeal from an order of the vice chancellor of the fourth circuit, directing the payment of $100 to the defendant, to enable her to defend her suit; and referring it to a master to report a suitable allowance for ad interim alimony. The defendant swears positively that she has not been gililty of the acts of adultery charged in the bill, or either of them. And, for the purpose of this application, that allegation must ¡be taken-to be true; the verdict in the cfim. con. case, brought by the complainant against White, not being even presumptive evidence of the fact of…
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