Melvin v. Furr

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is a petition for certiorari, brought by the former wife, to review a decree wherein the court denied her petition to require the former husband to pay cei tain installment payments for support of the minor children of the parties, which payments were accrued and past due, under a prior divorce decree, or to hold the former husband in contempt for failure to pay. For brevity we hereafter omit the word “former,” which applies in each subsequent reference to husband or wife.

By decree rendered in 1957, in accordance-with agreement of parties, custody was awarded to wife,…