Case ID: minn_114/html/0511-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ELLA BEAULIEU v. GUS H. BEAULIEU.
    
    June 9, 1911.
    Nos. 17,057 — (141).
    Divorce — reconciliation — allowance of attorney fees.
    In an action for divorce, the fact that since the services were rendered the parties became reconciled and do not desire the further prosecution of the action is not a legal equivalent of a dismissal of the action, and does not deprive the court of jurisdiction to make the order.
    Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court for Hennepin county, Hale, J., allowing plaintiff’s attorney $250 for services and expenses incurred on her behalf.
    Affirmed.
    
      Edgerton & Edgerton, for appellant.
    
      A. B. Choate, for respondent.
    
      
      Reported in 131 N. W. 481.
    
   Per Curiam.

Appeal in a divorce action by defendant from an order allowing the attorney of plaintiff $250 for services and expenses rendered and incurred herein on her behalf. That the services were rendered to enable the plaintiff to commence and prosecute the action, and that the amount allowed is reasonable, is not here controverted; but defendant claims that the court had no jurisdiction to make the order, for the reason that the parties, since the services were rendered, became reconciled and are now living together, and neither desires the further prosecution of the action. Reconciliation of the parties, however, is not the legal equivalent of- a dismissal of the action, and it is still pending. It is not a valid objection to the order that the services were rendered before it was made. The plaintiff’s motion for attorney’s fees in this court is denied.

Order affirmed.