Libel foe Djvoboe, alleging the causo of desertion. The libellee, who was the wife, asked for alimony, and, subject to exception, introduced evidence as to the value of her husband’s estate and acts of cruelty, which were the same acts alleged by her in a former petition, which had been denied. There was an ante-nuptial agreement that she should have certain property within three months after his decease, in lieu of all claim against his estate.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1879-06-05
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1980
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
¶1
Upon any decree of divorce, the court may order the husband to pay the wife such sum of money as maybe deemed just, even when a divorce is decreed against her, and she is not entitled to a divorce against him. Gen. St.,
c.
163.
s.
12;
Sheafe
v.
Sheafe,
24 N. H. 564;
Sheafe
v. Laighton, 36 N. H. 240; 2 Bish. Mar. & Div., s. 378.
¶2
Evidence as to the conduct of the parties toward each other, and the value of the husband’s estate, was competent on the question of alimony. Gen. St.,
c.
163,
s.
12. His duty to support her was properly considered in determining the amount of alimony. 2 Bish. Mar. & Div.,
s.
369;
Morrison
v. Morrison, 49 N. H. 73.
