Cox v. Cox

Bell, Chief Justice.

The original proceeding for alimony begun by Mrs. Cox was evidently predicated upon the provision of the Code, § 30-213, that when husband and wife shall be living separately, and there shall be no action for divorce pending^ the wife may institute a proceeding by petition setting forth her case; and upon three days’ notice to the husband, the judge may hear the same in term time or vacation, and grant such order as he might were it based on a pending petition for divorce, to be enforced in the same manner, and so forth. Wilson v. Wilson, 170 Ga. 340 (153 S. E. 9). The…