98 Ga. 393 | Ga. | 1896
Pending ber application for permanent alimony, Mrs. Berry applied for temporary alimony. Upon tbe bearing of ber application for permanent alimony, tbe jury rendered a verdict against ber, which was set aside upon a motion for a new trial. Her busband then filed a suit for divorce, and she. thereupon made a new application for temporary alimony. The husband filed a plea to the effect that she.
There was no error in allowing her to dismiss the petition for permanent alimony. Any suitor has a right to dismiss his action at any time, unless the defendant, in his plea or answer, has pleaded set-off or prayed for affirmative relief. (Code, §§3447, 4190.) No affirmative relief was sought against the wife in the proceeding instituted by her to obtain permanent alimony. She therefore had the right to dismiss it; and when it was dismissed, the application for temporary alimony, which was simply an adjunct to that proceding, went with it, and the judgment granting the temporary alimony ceased to be of force. And as the law gave her the right to temporary alimony pending the suit for divorce, the judge did not err in granting her temporary alimony and counsel fees upon her new application.
Judgment affirmed.