Chaplin
Chaplin v. Superior Court
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Houser, J.
Petitioner prays for an order of this court directing and commanding each of the respondents herein to desist and refrain from further proceedings under three several orders as set forth in the petition and heretofore issued out of the Superior Court in and for the County of Los Angeles in a suit for divorce then pending therein between Lillita Louise Chaplin and Charles Spencer Chaplin, wherein and whereby in effect W. I. Gilbert and Herman Spitzel, as receivers theretofore appointed in said action, and Charles Spencer Chaplin, the defendant therein, were ordered to pay for the support and maintenance of Lillita Louise Chaplin (the wife of said Charles Spencer Chaplin) and the two minor children of said parties the sum of $8,000 forthwith, the further sum of $4,000 on the seventeenth day of February, 1927, and a like sum of money on the fifteenth day of each and every month thereafter pending the final determination of said suit for divorce; and in addition thereto, that said Charles. Spencer Chaplin pay forthwith to said Lillita Louise Chaplin the sum of $6,400 on account of attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses to enable said Lillita Louise Chaplin to prosecute such divorce…