State Ex Rel. Hewson v. Hewson

This proceeding was instituted in the Circuit Court for Multnomah County as a contempt proceeding based upon charges that the alleged contemner had failed to pay $730.50, being a portion of the alimony awarded to the petitioner payable in monthly installments in a decree of divorce dated April 8, 1926. The proceeding was begun by the filing of a document May 21, 1928, entitled “a petition,” phrased in the third person; its caption was “ Azell Hewson, Plaintiff, v. George Hewson, Defendant,” and was accompanied with a statement bearing a similar caption entitled “affidavit” which was signed,…