Court Opinion

ID: 5172113
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 04:57:44.955811+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:26:08.102887
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BUDGE, C. J.
— This is an original application by the plaintiff praying for an order for allowance of alimony pending appeal. From the record it appears that the plaintiff brought an action for divorce against the defendant in the district court of the sixth judicial district. To plaintiff’s complaint defendant filed an answer and cross-complaint. Whereupon plaintiff filed an answer to the cross-complaint. Upon the issues thus framed the cause was tried to the court. The judgment of the court was that neither of the parties was entitled to a decree of divorce. Plaintiff thereafter filed a motion for,a new trial, which was overruled. From the judgment and from the order overruling the motion for a new trial plaintiff appealed. There*17after plaintiff made application to the trial court for an order directing the defendant to pay certain costs on appeal, together with counsel fees and temporary alimony pending the determination of the appeal, and also for a restraining order enjoining the defendant from disposing of his property in the meantime. The trial court made an order allowing costs on appeal together with counsel fees, but refused to allow temporary alimony and further denied the application for a restraining order. Whereupon this proceeding was resorted to.
The only question necessary to be determined, as we view it, is whether or not the showing made is sufficient to authorize the allowance of temporary alimony. Under the provisions of art. 5, sec. 9, of the constitution this court has jurisdiction in divorce actions, upon perfection of the appeal, to make allowances for suit money, attorneys’ fees and temporary alimony, the same being in aid of its appellate jurisdiction. (Enders v. Enders, 34 Ida. 381, 18 A. L. R. 1492, 201 Pac. 714; Callahan v. Dunn, 30 Ida. 225, 164 Pac. 356.) While original jurisdiction to grant alimony under C. S., sec. 4642, is vested in the district court in a proper case, this court is not without authority to grant alimony pending appeal. (Roby v. Roby, 9 Ida. 371, 74 Pac. 957.)
We have carefully examined plaintiff’s application, together with the showing made in support thereof, and have reached the conclusion that it is not sufficient to justify this court in granting the relief prayed for. The application is therefore denied.
McCarthy, Dunn, William A. Lee and Wm. E. Lee, JJ., concur.