Collins v. Superior Court

THE COURT.

This matter is before us on a writ of certiorari to review two orders of the respondent court, by each of which petitioner is adjudged to be in contempt of an order of that court, and on each of which he has been sentenced to five days in the county jail. We have reached the conclusion that neither order can be sustained and that each must be annulled.

Petitioner is the defendant in an action brought by one Bettye Lois Collins seeking a divorce from him or, in the alternative, an annulment of her marriage to him. Contemporaneously with the commencement of the action Bettye caused…