Bourgeois v. Bourgeois

On application for alimony pendente lite, the defendant wife was awarded $500 per month, and also allowance for counsel fee and suit money.

The petitioner husband paid the counsel fee and suit money and one month's alimony, and has filed appeal from the order for alimony. The defendant wife has brought contempt proceedings, for the non-payment of the second month's alimony.

Petitioner contends that the effect of the appeal is to stay the order for alimony pendente lite. Defendant contends that there is no such stay unless and until an order for stay be entered.

The precise question here involved…