Court Opinion

ID: 9443261
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:16:09.011498+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:25.891116
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FINNEGAN, C. J.
dissenting. In my opinion the District Court of the United States has no jurisdiction to review, modify, or vacate in whole or in part, decrees entered by a state court for alimony in divorce or separate maintenance proceedings. The District Court has no authority to grant alimony or to review the grant thereof by a state court. Barber v. Barber, 21 How. 582, 16 L.Ed. 226; Bowman v. Bowman, C.C., 30 F. 849.
This cause should have been remanded to the Superior Court of Cook County where it originated, and where the allowance of alimony was made. People v. Sterling, 357 Ill. 354, 192 N.E. 229.