Murrey

Murrey v. Murrey

Good Law
1932 Cal. LEXIS 633·216 Cal. 707·16 P.2d 741·85 A.L.R. 1335
Supreme Court of CaliforniaNovember 28, 1932Docket Nos. L.A. 13488, 13589.California2,072 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Waste, J.

Defendant appeals from an order granting temporary support and maintenance pendente lite (L. A. No. 13488) and from a final judgment granting such support and maintenance to plaintiff, minor child of the defendant (L. A. No. 13589). By stipulation of the parties the appeals have been consolidated.

The facts upon which the appeals are based are as follows:

Defendant is admittedly a resident of Utah. While temporarily present in San Francisco, California, for the purpose of training as a reserve officer of the 57th Coast Artillery, Regular Army Inactive, defendant was served with the summons and order to show cause in the present action, which had been commenced by plaintiff in the county of Los Angeles. The action is one by a minor child to compel the defendant, his father, to contribute to his support. The complaint alleges that defendant and plaintiff’s mother were married in Los Angeles in 1918; that defendant deserted his wife in Oregon in January, 1919; that plaintiff was bom as the lawful issue of that marriage in March, 1919; that plaintiff’s mother secured a divorce from defendant in Oregon in 1920 and, by that decree, was awarded custody of plaintiff; that no provision…

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