Norrell v. Norrell

BROWN, Justice.

This appeal is by the husband from a decree denying divorce on bill filed by the wife against him seeking a divorce a vinculo, on statutory grounds. Notwithstanding the divorce was denied, the decree granted alimony pendente lite, solicitor’s fees, and permanent alimony, in the form of a personal judgment enforceable by execution which the decree orders to issue.

The jurisdiction invoked by the bill is statutory and limited, and the court is without power to decree a permanent allowance out of the husband’s estate, when the court has denied a divorce. Such permanent allowance ex…