Ex parte Cottrell

The Court:

The petitioner asks to he discharged from imprisonment for an alleged contempt of Court in disobeying its order to pay alimony.

1. It is claimed that the Court exceeded its jurisdiction in increasing the amount over that decreed to be paid by the judgment entered in the action. The Code, however, authorizes the Court to modify its orders in this respect from time to time. (C. C., § 139.)

2. The petitioner denies that a written notice of the order was ever served upon him. He does not deny that he in fact had notice thereof. And the plaintiff in her affidavit to obtain an order upon…