198 P. 207 | Or. | 1922
Lead Opinion
The plaintiff has filed with our clerk a motion
“to compel the defendant to pay the temporary alimony heretofore awarded to the minor children in the above-entitled cause in the sum of $30 per month, and which same is now delinquent in the sum of $180, and that he he compelled to pay said amount thereafter each month in said sum of $30 as prayed for and shown by the affidavit hereto attached.”
The affidavit attached to the motion avers that “about one year ago” the plaintiff commenced a suit for a divorce against the defendant; that “shortly thereafter” the plaintiff made application for maintenance for the two minor children and that the Circuit Court made an allowance of $30 per month; that “thereafter” the cause was tried and the court awarded the custody of the two minor children to the plaintiff and decreed that the defendant pay $50 per month for the maintenance of the children; that thereafter the defendant appealed to the Supreme Court where the cause is now pending; that “shortly after the appeal” the defendant “refused to pay any alimony for the support of the said minor children,” and the plaintiff caused the defendant to appear in the Circuit Court “and show cause why he should not he compelled to pay said alimony”; and that upon the showing made by the defendant the Circuit Court “decided that as the cause was appealed to the Supreme Court that he had lost jurisdiction not only over the decree hut also over the order allowing the temporary alimony, and therefore dismissed said proceeding”; that the defendant “is now delinquent in his payment in the sum of $180 or for the period of six months at the rate of $30 per month.”
“will pay all damages, costs and disbursements which may be awarded against him in said suit on the appeal, and that if the said decree or any part thereof be affirmed, the defendant will satisfy the same so far as affirmed.” See Section 551, subd. 1, Or. L.
The claim involved in the motion of the plaintiff is one which might present many interesting questions if the record permitted discussion of the merits of the claim: See 19 C. J. 190.
The motion filed by the plaintiff is denied.
Motion Denied.
Opinion on the Merits
On the Merits.
(203 Pac. 613.)
Aeeirmed.
Department 1.
— The plaintiff and the defendant intermarried at Astoria, Oregon, on Angnst 28, 1914. Two children, both girls, one aged five years and the other four, are the issue of the marriage. In her complaint the plaintiff charges the defendant with cruel and inhuman treatment and personal indignities rendering her life burdensome. The answer denies all of said charges and alleges no misconduct against the plaintiff, but does allege that disagreements have arisen between the parties on account of plaintiff’s refusal to properly keep house, cook for defendant and take care of his clothes. The answer also alleges that the plaintiff has been in the habit of going to public dances against defendant’s protest; and that in the summer of 1919, the plaintiff in the company of her mother and another woman attended public dances frequently, sometimes not returning therefrom until after midnight; that the plaintiff was under the influence of her mother, who had interfered in their domestic affairs, which interference had resulted in plaintiff’s leaving the home of the defendant on three occasions and taking up her abode with her mother, all of which is denied in the reply.
The depositions of a large number of witnesses were taken, but the principal testimony in the case was heard in open court before the trial judge who having made his findings of fact and conclusions of law,
For appellant there was a brief and oral argument by Mr. B. G. Shulason. ■
For respondent there was a brief and oral argument by Mr. P. J. Bannon.
It is also established by the evidence that the defendant frequently, without any reason for suspicioning his wife or any cause for the accusations, wrongfully accused her of immoral conduct and told her, and upon one occasion another person, that he was not the father of the second child; that he frequently called her by the vilest of names and ordered her to leave, saying, that he was tired of feeding her. The evidence shows other acts of cruelty on the part of the defendant, not necessary to be related here.
“to uphold and sustain the marriage relation, and courts of equity will not lend their aid to dissolve it unless the proof be clear and satisfactory of the truth of the charge preferred.”
Yet, in cases like this, where misconduct by the plaintiff is neither alleged nor proved and the acts complained of are clearly established by the evidence and were not provoked by any act of the plaintiff nor participated in by her, and are of the kind and character which by statute are made a ground for divorce at the suit of the injured party, courts of
For the reasons above set forth, the decree of the lower court is affirmed, and it is so ordered.
Affirmed.