Case ID: mich_58/html/0273-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Morse, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Catharine Van Driele v. Ary Van Driele.
    
      Divorce — Solicitor’s fee.
    
    No solicitor’s fee beyond wbat had been previously allowed was included in the costs awarded complainant in divorce, upon reversing- a decree dismissing her bill on demurrer, and directing it to be answered.
    Appeal from the Superior Court of Grand Rapids. (Parrish, J.)
    October 14.
    
    October 28.
    Divorce bill. Complainant appeals.
    Reversed.
    
      Stuart c& Sioeet for complainant.
    Blair, Kingsley Kleinhans for defendant.
   Morse, C. J.

Complainant filed her bill in the circuit court for the county of Kent in chancery, praying for a divorce from the defendant on two grounds : extreme cruelty and want of proper maintenance. Defendant interposed a demurrer for the reason that the case stated in complainant’s bill did not entitle her to relief, and that the acts set forth therein did not inlaw constitute extreme cruelty. The court below sustained the demurrer and dismissed the bill.

We shall not discuss the various allegations in the bill, as no good purpose will be served by so doing. Some of them are vague, shadowy and unsatisfactory, but upon the whole face of the bill enough appears, in our opinion, to require answer and explanation by defendant. The decree of the circuit court for the county of Kent in chancery is reversed, and defendant must answer. The complainant will be allowed her costs in this Court, but no solicitor's fee, the allowance heretofore made being deemed under the circumstances sufficient.

The other Justices concurred.