ETHEL GOOLSBY
v.
WILBUR T. GOOLSBY

Fla. | 1934-04-24
114 Fla. 578 Florida Supreme Court (1934) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 154 Sou. 522
Cited by 2 cases

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Synopsis

The Florida Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's denial of temporary alimony and suit money, finding no error in the Chancellor's decision after reviewing the evidence presented.


Holding

No, the Chancellor did not err in denying the petition for temporary alimony and suit money.


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“We have examined the law and the record of the testimony before us and we cannot say that the Chancellor erred in his order denying defendant’s petition.”

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Facts & Procedural History

The complainant, Wilbur T. Goolsby, sued for divorce. The defendant, Ethel Goolsby, petitioned for temporary alimony and suit money. The Chancellor de…

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Opinion of the Court
Terrell, J.

Terrell, J.

— Complainant, Wilbur T. Goolsby, brought suit against Ethel Goolsby, the appellant, in the Circuit Court of Lee County, to secure a divorce. Defendant entered her appearance and petitioned the Chancellor for temporary alimony and suit money. Testimony was taken and the Chancellor entered a decree denying the prayer of the petitioner. Her petition for temporary alimony and suit money being denied in the lower court, was seasonably renewed in this Court and the Complainant has brought up the record of evidence taken below, properly certified, for our consideration.

When petitions for alimony and suit money are filed in this Court, we have generally followed the rule of referring them back to the Chancellor, to ascertain the faculties of the parties, but since that has been done, and we have the testimony taken by the Chancellor before us, it becomes unnecessary to follow that practice in the instant case.

Alimony is provided under Section 3194, Revised General Statutes of 1920, Section 4986, et seq., Compiled General Laws of 1927. We have examined the law and the record of the testimony before us and we cannot say that the Chancellor erred in his order denying defendant’s petition. Having been renewed in this Court, it is accordingly dismissed.

It is so ordered.

*580Davis, C. J., and Whitfield, Ellis, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.


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  • Troeger v. Troeger, 127 Fla. 53 (Fla. 1937)
    …founded, and that it is essential that the applicant have the appellate court’s aid in order to enable her to have her marital rights properly defended in the appellate proceedings. Duss v. Duss, 92 Fla. 1081, 111 Sou. Rep. 382; Goolsby v. Goolsby, 114 Fla. 578, 154 Sou. Rep. 522; Frohock v. Frohock, 117 Fla. 603, 158 Sou. Rep. 106. Where the wife is unsuccessful in a divorce suit, allowance of attorney’s fees, suit money and temporary alimony is not a matter of right, since it is presumed that divorce de…

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