Powell v. Powell

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

STAINBACK, J.

Appellee on January 29, 1954, filed a petition to the circuit judge at chambers against her husband, appellant, for separate maintenance, and for the support, maintenance and custody of their minor children. The petition alleged that appellee was a resident of the City and County of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.

On February 2, 1954, appellant filed a plea in abatement and prayed that the proceedings be abated on the grounds that there was pending in the circuit court of the first judicial circuit of the Territory of Hawaii special proceedings number 2724,…