Sumner v. Sumner
Wisconsin Supreme Court
• APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Saule County. The defendant Sumner appealed from so much of a judgment of divorce against him as required him to pay $400 suit money.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, C. J.
This was an action for divorce on the ground of. cruel and inhuman treatment. The circuit court found against the plaintiff on the proofs, and dismissed her complaint. The court further adjudged that the defendant pay the plaintiff the sum of $400, in addition to the suit money ■already paid, to reimburse the plaintiff’s attorneys for actual and necessary disbursements and reasonable fees in prosecuting the action. The appeal is from that part of the judgment ■making this allowance to the plaintiff on dismissing her com*643plaint. It is claimed that the court below had no power, after having…
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