Ex parte Beavers
West Virginia Supreme Court
Original application by C. C. Beavers for a writ of habeas corpus against D. C. Collins, jailer, etc.
1Opinion of the Court
Poffenbarger, Judge:
Seeking liberation fr.om imprisonment by an order made in an attachment for failure and refusal to pay alimony decreed against him, in a suit for divorce, C. C. Beavers ob*35tained a writ of habeas corpus, on his petition exhibiting therewith all the orders made and entered in the cause. The return to the writ relies upon the order of commitment as justification of his detention.
By an order entered, April 8, 1914, a divorce a mensa et thoro was awarded his wife, and it was further adjudged, ordered and decreed that she recover from him the sum of $1,000.00, for the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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