McCulloch v. Murphy
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Peoria county ; the Hon. Sabin D. Puterbaugh, Judge, presiding. This was originally a suit brought by Eliza Murphy against John Murphy, defendant in error, for divorce and alimony. The bill charges extreme and repeated cruelty. The complainant having returned to her husband and abandoned her suit, her counsel, the plaintiffs in error, filed their petition for additional attorneys’ fees.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Peoria county ; the Hon. Sabin D. Puterbaugh, Judge, presiding. This was originally a suit brought by Eliza Murphy against John Murphy, defendant in error, for divorce and alimony. The bill charges extreme and repeated cruelty. The complainant having returned to her husband and abandoned her suit, her counsel, the plaintiffs in error, filed their petition for additional attorneys’ fees. The defendant appeared and resisted said motion, and moved to dismiss the proceeding. The motion for additional fees was denied, and the bill for divorce dismissed. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
delivered to opinion of the Court:
Eliza Murphy filed her bill for a divorce against her husband, John Murphy, at the February Term, 1867, of the Peoria Circuit Court, McCulloch and Taggart, the plaintiffs in error herein, being her counsel. At the same term they made a motion for alimony pendente lite, and counsel fees, and the court thereupon ordered that the defendant pay fifty dollars per month to the complainant for her support, and fifty dollars as fees for counsel. This order was obeyed, and the counsel received that sum. The defendant at the same time was allowed until the 1st day of…
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