Walling v. Walling

The Chancellor.

The complainant filed a bill against his wife for divorce, on the ground of desertion. The wife, having answered, asks an allowance for alimony pendente lite, and for counsel fee and expenses. The application is submitted without argument, upon the facts contained in the petition.

The materials for an intelligent and satisfactory disposition of the question are not before the court. All the material facts that are disclosed are, that the husband and wife have been living separate for some years. The wife (with two daughters, one seventeen and the other fifteen years of age)…