107 N.Y.S. 904 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1907
This is an appeal from an order of the Special Term awarding to . the plaintiff alimony pendente lite at the rate of ten dollars per week, and a counsel fee of seventy-five dollars. The order is based upon a petition of the plaintiff, in which it >is alleged “ That she will be able to Substantiate all the allegations- of the complaint- by proof at the. trial, and that she has a good cause of action thereon, as she is advised by her counselor * *. • * and that she verily believes.”
The,complaint alleges “on information and. belief that at divers, times and at various peaces in-the City of New York, between the 1st day of September, 1906, and the 1st day of January, 1907, the defendant has committed adultery with a woman.whose name is -at present unknown to the plaintiff.” This allegation of the complaint. is .denied under oath by the defendant.
This order should not have been granted under the express authority of Downing v. Downing (23 App. Div. 559), where this court said : “All the allegations constituting the ground of divorce in the complaint are upon information and belief; and this motion
Therefore, this order should be reversed and the motion denied, without costs, with leave to renew upon further proofs.
Patterson, P. J., Ingraham, McLaughlin and Houghton, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed and motion denied, without costs, with leave to renew as stated in opinion. Settle order, on notice.