DAMON v. DAMON

No. 5714.

283 F.2d 571 (1960)

Arlene M. DAMON, Respondent, Appellant, v. Cecil J. DAMON, Petitioner, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided October 28, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Niehoff, Waterville, Me., with whom Niehoff & Niehoff, Waterville, Me., was on brief, for appellant.

No appearance for appellee.

Before WOODBURY, Chief Judge, and HARTIGAN and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges.


HARTIGAN, Circuit Judge.

The main question raised in this appeal is whether the lower court erred in finding as a matter of law that an order for the payment of counsel fees decreed by the Superior Court of Maine to a wife in a divorce action is a debt dischargeable in bankruptcy and granting the discharge of the petitioner on his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Cecil J. Damon, petitioner-appellee, commenced...

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