153 F.2d 634 | D.C. Cir. | 1946
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court denying appellant’s motion to set aside a previous order of that court appointing a sequestrator for pension payments' due to appellant from the District of Columbia. The single question is whether the court had jurisdiction and power to issue an order of sequestration of funds under the control of the District of Columbia.
The facts are these:
Appellee, in 1937, was granted a decree of absolute divorce and appellant, her husband, was ordered to pay her $50 a month for her maintenance and the support of a minor child. In 1939 appellant, a District policeman, was retired for disability and was awarded a pension of $100 a month, payable out of the Policeman and Firemen’s Relief Fund. Subsequently he moved to Virginia and stopped making payments to his wife. In 1940 appellee obtained an order directing the District disbursing officer to pay the pension checks due appellant to a sequestrator until the further order of the court. No appeal was taken by the husband or by the District from this order until October, 1944, when appellant sought to file this motion to set aside the order, on the ground that the court lacked jurisdiction to order sequestration of funds under control of the District of Columbia.
To the same effect see Monck v. Monck, 184 App.Div. 656, 172 N.Y.S. 401; Weigold v. Weigold, 236 App.Div. 126, 258 N.Y.S. 348, 349; Hodson v. N. Y. City Employees System, 243 App.Div. 480, 278 N.Y.S. 16; Tully v. Tully, 159 Mass. 91, 34 N.E. 79; Bates v. Bates, 74 Ga, 105; Menzie v. Anderson, 65 Ind. 239; Spengler v. Kaufman, 46 Mo.App. 644; Winter v. Winter, 95 Neb. 335, 145 N.W. 709, 50 L.R.A.,N.S., 697.
The Rone case,
There is, moreover, an additional consideration which would require us to affirm the order of the District Court. For while it is true that we have held funds of an individual in the possession of the District of Columbia or its officers are not subject to attachment or garnishment, in an ordinary proceeding to recover on a debt or other like claim,
Application is made to us for the allowance of counsel fees to appellee’s attorney. We think an allowance of $200 will be reasonable, and it is so ordered.
Affirmed.
Rone v. Rone, 78 U.S.App.D.C. 369, 141 F.2d 23.
Chowning v. District of Columbia, 73 App.D.C. 392, 119 F.2d 459, certiorari denied 314 U.S. 639, 62 S.Ct. 74, 86 L.Ed. 513; rehearing denied 314 U.S. 710, 62 S.Ct. 175, 86 L.Ed. 566.