Case Name: Regina Norton v. F. W. Norton
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1924
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 628
Docket Number: No. 18275
Parties: Regina Norton v. F. W. Norton.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Day and Conn, JJ., concur.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 628–628

Head Matter:
No. 18275
Regina Norton v. F. W. Norton.
Error to the Court of Appeals of Lorain County.
413. DIVORCE AND ALIMONY — 1. Satisfied judgment for alimony in case brought by wife does not bar application for pendente lite, for funds to defend husband’s subsequent suit for divorce, when she is without means.
2. Granting motion for such alimony in the absence of husband at the hearing when amount is not excessive, and when notice is given to his attorney or record, is not reversible on account of his absence.
791. MOTIONS — Trial court may grant or refuse continuance.

Opinion:
ALLEN, J.
1. A judgment for alimony rendered in an action solely for permanent alimony brought by the wife, which judgment is fully satisfied, does not bar an application for alimony pen-dente lite made by the wife for the purpose of obtaining funds with which to enable her to make a defense in a suit for divorce brought by the husband subsequent to the alimony suit instituted by the wife, where it appears that such wife has not sufficient means of her own to make a defense.
• 2. The granting or refusing of a motion for continuance rests in the sound discretion of the trial court.
3. The granting of a motion for alimony pendente lite in favor of the wife, of which notice is duly given to the attorney of record for the husband, in a divorce suit brought by the husband, the amount of said alimony granted not being under the facts excessive nor unreasonable, is not reversible because of the absence of the husband at the hearing upon the motion.
Judgment reversed.
Marshall, C. J., Day and Conn, JJ., concur.