Langan

Langan v. Langan

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1890 Cal. LEXIS 986·86 Cal. 132·24 P. 852
Supreme Court of CaliforniaOctober 1, 1890No. 13593California329 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Beatty, J.

This is an action for divorce in-which the superior court has made two orders for temporary alimony, one requiring the defendant to pay to the plaintiff twenty-five dollars each month for her support, and another requiring him to pay her one hundred and fifty dollars for counsel fees. Separate appeals were taken from each order. The appeal from the second order was -dismissed on motion of respondent, because the amount involved was too small to give the court jurisdiction. ( 83 Cal. 618 .) Respondent now moves to dismiss the appeal from the first order on the same ground. But the order to pay twenty-five dollars a month is a continuing order, under which the payment of more than three hundred dollars may be enforced, and it is therefore within the appellate jurisdiction of this court. If it liad been so limited by its terms that it could not be enforced for so much as three hundred dollars, the case would ba^e been different; but as it is, the motion to dismiss must be denied.

It has been suggested that this appeal is vexatious, and merely intended to deprive the plaintiff of the means of support pending the litigation. This may or may not be true of this case, but it is obvious…

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