Barnum v. Barnum

Candler, Justice.

Mrs. Claire Barnum brought a proceeding for contempt against W. B. Barnum, her former husband, in the Superior Court of Lowndes County. She alleged that he had refused to comply with some of the provisions of a decree for permanent alimony as rendered in that corp’t. The respondent denied that he was in contempt and alleged that he had fully complied with the decree. He further alleged by way of cross-action that the contempt proceeding was not instituted in good faith, but was a plan and scheme on the part of the plaintiff and her friend, Ted Hughes, to annoy, embarrass, and…