Crane v. Hayes

Appellant, Clarence Levi Crane, was held in contempt by the Circuit Court of Palm Beach County for failure to comply with an order of the court requiring him to deliver custody of his minor child to Christina Bruce Hayes, the child’s mother. It is the order of contempt which we are asked to review by this interlocutory appeal.

The history of the litigation between appellant and his divorced wife over the custody of their minor child is somewhat lengthy and is replete with conduct on the part of both evidencing a contumacious disregard of those court orders with which they were dissatisfied.…