Opinion
Gen. No. 42,678. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed December 13, 1943 Rehearing denied December 28, 1943
DIVORCE, § 226 — propriety of amount of attorneys' fees allowed against husband found guilty of contempt in matter of alimony. Decree finding husband guilty of contempt in failing to pay for period of some 11 years monthly instalments of alimony provided for in divorce decree, and liable, in sum originally fixed, for attorneys' fees for wife's prosecution of rule to show cause, held proper, notwithstanding wife's marriage to another and her foreclosure of mortgage securing such deferred instalments and payment by husband of unpaid balance of alimony secured by such mortgage, together with interest, and costs and attorneys' fees connected with foreclosure proceedings.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. PHILIP J. FINNEGAN, Judge, presiding.
Decree of October 20, 1942 reversed; decree of April 19, 1942 affirmed. Heard in the first division, first district, this court at the June term, 1943.
J. Edward Jones, for appellant and cross appellee;
Norman C. Barry and Francis L. Brinkman, for appellee and cross appellant.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed December 13, 1943; rehearing denied December 28, 1943.