Robinson v. Robinson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Sam Whitman, Jb., Chancellor. Suit by Dr. B. L. Robinson against Mrs. M. A. Robinson. Rrom an interlocutory decree allowing Mrs. Robinson for counsel fees, Dr. Robinson appeals. This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree of tbe chancellor requiring appellant to pay appellee one hundred dollars solicitor’s fee.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Sam Whitman, Jb., Chancellor. Suit by Dr. B. L. Robinson against Mrs. M. A. Robinson. Rrom an interlocutory decree allowing Mrs. Robinson for counsel fees, Dr. Robinson appeals. This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree of tbe chancellor requiring appellant to pay appellee one hundred dollars solicitor’s fee. It appears from tbe record that Mrs. M. A. Robinson, appellee herein, sued her husband, tbe appellant, for a divorce in tbe year 1910, and tbe prayer of her bill was upon due bearing granted. Just before tbe decree of divorce…
1Opinion of the Court
SteveNS, J.,.
delivered the opinion of the court.
The allowance of alimony is justified by the natural obligation of the husband, as the bread winner of the family, to support his wife. If there is no legal marriage of the parties, there is no legal obligation on the husband for this support. Reecl v. Reed’ 85 Miss. 126, 37 So. 642. The parties hereto were divorced in the year 1910, and are now in the eyes of the law strangers one to the other. The petition which appellant filed in the court below, and which prompted the allowance of the attorney’s fee complained of, was *226not a petition for a…
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