State Ex Rel. Foster v. Superior Court

This is an application for a writ of prohibition to restrain the superior court of Yakima county from proceeding to punish plaintiff for contempt of court because of his failure to make certain payments of money in accordance with the provisions of the interlocutory decree entered in the divorce action between himself and wife.

On April 3, 1937, Lydia M. Foster and plaintiff were divorced in the superior court of Yakima county. The interlocutory decree in that case, omitting the formal parts, recited:

“It Is Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed That there be and is hereby awarded to the plaintiff as…