Case Name: HINTON v. TERWILLIGER
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1932-10-31
Citations: 144 So. 486
Docket Number: No. 31600
Parties: HINTON v. TERWILLIGER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter
Volume: 144
Pages: 486–486

Head Matter:
175 La. 751
HINTON v. TERWILLIGER.
No. 31600.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Oct. 31, 1932.
Neil A. Armstrong, Jr., of New Orleans, for appellant.
Oliver S. Livaudais, of New Orleans, for appellee.

Opinion:
ROGERS, J.
Plaintiff, alleging cruel treatment, sued her husband for a separation from bed and board', and prayed for $75 a month alimony during the pendency of her suit. The court below, after hearing the parties, fixed plaintiff's alimony at $25 a month. Defendant appealed, and plaintiff answered the appeal asking that the amount of the judgment be increased to $75 a month, the original amount for which she prayed.
The only testimony in the record is that of the parties themselves. The marriage took place on July 10, 1930, and a little more than a year thereafter this suit was filed. AVhile plaintiff testified in a general way regarding her husband's affairs, she had no actual knowledge of his business nor of his financial condition.
Defendant operates a small grocery and oil station at Xcloskey in the parish of St. Bernard. He was called for cross-examination under the statute, and testified that since the Caernarvon Crevasse in 1927 he has been barely able to make a living; that his trade is purely local, and that his customers, who are principally engaged in fishing and trapping, because of the decline in their business, have no money and are largely indebted to him; that his revenues at the present time do not average $3 a day. Plaintiff herself owns an interest in property in Mississippi from which she derives an income of $7 a month.
On the facts disclosed by the record, we see no reason to disturb the judgment of the court below.
For the reasons assigned, the judgment appealed from is affirmed.