Case ID: mich_18/html/0458-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Louisa H. Skillman v. Jacob T. B. Skillman.
    
      Divorce: Dismissing case when the purpose of the litigation has terminated. The wife filed a bill for divorce, and the court granted a limited divorce for one year only, with $250 alimony. The defendant appealed. After the year had expired, the case not having been brought to a hearing in the Supreme Court, the complainant petitioned for alimony, and for an allowance for expenses. The record was voluminous, and the court being satisfied that if the cause was proceeded in, an allowance ought to be made to the complainant exceeding the alimony allowed by the court below, refused to retain the case in court, and dismissed the appeal, with costs to complainant.
    
      Heard and decided May 11.
    
    Appeal in Chancery from Macomb Circuit.
    The complainant filed her bill for a divorce, on the ground of cruelty. The Circuit Court, in August, 1867, awarded a limited divorce for one year only, with an allowance, by way of alimony of two hundred and fifty dollars.
    The defendant appealed.
    
      
      E. F. Mead and J. B. Eldridge, on affidavits showing tbe complainant’s needy condition, and her inability to employ counsel, now moved for an allowance for tbe support of herself and child, pending 'the litigation, and to enable her to bring tbe case to a hearing.
    
      A. B. Maynard, contra.
   Tbe court, after looking into tbe affidavits and tbe record — which was quite voluminous — being satisfied that if tbe case proceeded, an allowance ought to be made to complainant considerably exceeding tbe amount of tbe alimony allowed by tbe court below, and which was the only remaining subject of litigation, refused to retain tbe case in court, and dismissed it with one hundred dollars costs to complainant.