Case ID: ill-app_207/html/0126-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Alma Heizer et al., Defendants in Error, v. John W. Heizer, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 23,051.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles M. Thomson, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917.
    Reversed and remanded with directions.
    Opinion filed July 2, 1917.
    Rehearing denied July 16, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Bill for divorce by Alma Heizer, complainant, against John W. Heizer, defendant. By an order entered therein defendant was directed to pay $100 as solicitors’ fees to F. A. Woodbnrv and Otto Schusterman, complainant’s solicitors, for services in defending a writ of error in the Appellate Court in Reiser v. Reiser, 204 111. App. 200, which was sued out to reverse the order for alimony made in the divorce suit, in which, prior thereto, a decree of divorce had been entered. To reverse the order allowing solicitors'’ fees, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.
    G. A. Buresh and Otto Wadewitz, for plaintiff in error.
    F. A. Woodbury, for defendants in error.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Divorce, § 142
      
       — what does not affect allowance of solicitors’ fee for defending decree, on review. The fact that the measure adopted by the trial court to ascertain the amount of alimony was held erroneous on appeal does not deprive that court of jurisdiction to allow to a wife solicitors’ fees to defend on review the integrity of the alimony decreed.
    2. Divorce, § 143* — who may h,ave allowance of solicitors’ fees. The allowance of solicitors’ fees in a divorce suit must be made to the wife and not to her solicitors.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.