Sheafe v. Laighton
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Debt on Bond. The parties agree that the plaintiff was formerly the wife of W. H. Sheafe. He applied for a diyorce from her, for adultery, and a divorce was granted in 1849 by the Superior Court. Afterward she applied to the same court for alimony, and such proceedings were had that at the July term of said court, in 1852, the said W. H. Sheafe wrns decreed to pay her, as alimony, one hundred and fifty dollars a year.
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Debt on Bond. The parties agree that the plaintiff was formerly the wife of W. H. Sheafe. He applied for a diyorce from her, for adultery, and a divorce was granted in 1849 by the Superior Court. Afterward she applied to the same court for alimony, and such proceedings were had that at the July term of said court, in 1852, the said W. H. Sheafe wrns decreed to pay her, as alimony, one hundred and fifty dollars a year. Said alimony being unpaid, the plaintiff applied to said court, at July term, 1855, by her petition, setting forth said divorce and decree of alimony; averring that four several…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
The powers of the court in relation to the alimony of the wife in cases of divorce, are very broad. They are not in any way restricted by the position of the wife, as libellant or lib elle e.
“ Upon any decree of nullity or divorce, the court may restore to the wife all or any part of her lands, tenements and heredita-ments, and may assign to her such part of the real and personal *243estate of her husband, or order him to pay such sum of money, as may he deemed just and expedient. Rev. Stat., ch. 148, sec. 13; Whittier v. Whittier, 11 Roster (31 N. H.) 452.
The ordinary course is to allow alimony…
2Cited by1 opinion
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