Smith v. Superior Court

This is an application for a writ of review for the purpose of having reviewed, annulled, and set aside a proceeding and the judgment therein entered adjudging the petitioner guilty of contempt of court in that he violated a certain order of the respondent Court fixing and awarding alimony to be paid to one Elaine T. Smith by the petitioner in an action for divorce in said Court between the former and the latter.

From the petition and the return thereto the general facts may be taken and stated as follows: The petitioner and said Elaine T. Smith intermarried on the fourth day of June, 1917.…