Case Name: TEMPLETON v. TEMPLETON
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1901-02-21
Citations: 126 Mich. 44
Docket Number: 
Parties: TEMPLETON v. TEMPLETON.
Judges: The other Justices concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 126
Pages: 44–45

Head Matter:
TEMPLETON v. TEMPLETON.
Divorce — Alimony—Adequacy.
Under a decree of divorce, an award of $1,400 in cash, to be paid within 90 days, as alimony, where defendant’s property was shown to consist only of a farm worth $3,350 and personalty worth $1,140, was not open to the objection of-inadequacy.
Appeal from Ingham; Wiest, J.
Submitted November 14, 1900.
Decided February 21, 1901.
Bill by Emily Templeton against Angus Templeton for a divorce. From a decree fixing the amount of alimony to be paid by defendant, complainant appeals.
Affirmed.
Smith & Hood, for complainant.
Lawton T. Hemans (B. A. Montgomery, of counsel), for defendant.

Opinion:
Hooker, J.
The circuit court in chancery granted to complainant a decree of divorce, referring the subject of alimony to a commissioner, with direction to take proofs and report the amount of real and personal property possessed by the defendant. He reported the real property as of the value of $3,350, and that the personal property was worth $1,140, making a total of $4,490; whereupon the court decreed that the defendant.pay to the complainant within 90 days, in cash, the sum of $1,400. The complainant has appealed, claiming the amount inadequate.
' The proofs were taken in open court, and were ex parte. We may take judicial notice that no man whose property consists of a farm, and the personal property usually owned by a farmer, and which all amounts to but $4,490, can raise and pay $1,400 in cash without serious embarrassment. We think complainant should have been satisfied with the decree, which is hereby affirmed, without costs to either party.
The other Justices concurred.