Blake v. Blake

Citations

• 80 Ill. 523

Syllabus

<p>1. Appeal—when it will lie. An appeal will lie to the Supreme Court from any decree against a party that will work a deprivation of his property or liberty.</p> <p>2. A decree against a husband for the payment of money for attorney’s fees and expenses of defending an appeal taken by him from an order com-milting him to prison for failing to pay money to his wife under a previous order for provisional alimony, rendered in a suit brought by her for divorce, is in the nature of a final decree, and an appeal will lie therefrom.</p> <p>3. Divobce—court may a/wavd reasonable amount to wife for solicitor's fees and expenses of suit. The court, under our statute, has power to award attorney’s fees and other expenses in divorce causes, and the matter is largely in the discretion of the court, but such allowances must always be reasonable, having in view the wealth and social standing of the parties, and what would be reasonable in any case is a matter of evidence.</p>