Hillman v. Gallant
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans;-E.'K. Skinner, Judge. Action for divorce by Hannah M. Hillman Gallant against Benjamin F. Gallant.
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Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans;-E.'K. Skinner, Judge. Action for divorce by Hannah M. Hillman Gallant against Benjamin F. Gallant. Judgment for plaintiff awarding alimony, on which plaintiff caused execution to issue, whereupon defendant obtained injunction and ruled plaintiff to show why the amount awarded should not be reduced, whereupon plaintiff ruled him to show why the injunction should not be dissolved on which there was a judgment reducing the alimony and defendant’s claimed credit upon the judgment enjoined and dissolving the injunction in part, and defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, C. J.
In 1916, the litigants herein, being husband and wife, lived in Wisconsin, and, the husband having sued the *83wife for divorce, there was judgment, November 3, 1916, dismissing his suit, and further, as follows:
“That defendant be awarded the sum of $80 per month as, and for, her support, * * * the first payment to be made as of September 15, 1916; that defendant be awarded the further sum of $132.50, said sum being arrears in temporary alimony heretofore ordered paid. * * * ”
In 1917, the parties were apparently living in New Orleans, and the wife (plaintiff…
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