State ex rel. Walton v. Cornish

In the district court of Lancaster county, before the respondent, one of the judges of said court, on the 3d day of April, 1896, one Barbara S. Walton obtained a decree of divorce from Thomas Walton, the relator herein, and the allowance to her of $5,000 as permanent alimony, the further sum of $700 as attorneys’ fees, and that the relator pay the costs of the action. Thomas Walton, desiring to appeal from said decree to this court, applied to the respondent, the judge who heard and decided said cause, to fix the amount of the supersedeas bond to be given by the relator to stay proceedings…