Gottlieb v. Gottlieb

VALLÉE, J.

Appeal from an order granting defendant’s motion to dismiss an order directing him to show cause why he should not pay plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees and costs in an action brought against her by defendant for alleged malicious abuse of process.

In this divorce action plaintiff was granted an interlocutory decree on April 24, 1953. A property settlement agreement is set out verbatim in the interlocutory decree. A final decree was entered on May 6, 1954. On July 20, 1956, plaintiff filed in the divorce action an affidavit for a writ of execution in which she stated that $10,875 had…