Ryerson v. Ryerson

On a motion for an order that defendant be adjudged guilty of contempt for failure to comply with a divorce decree requiring the defendant to pay to the plaintiff the sum of $75 per month as and for support of herself and their children, the court adjudged defendant guilty of contempt and gave him a suspended sentence of 30 days in jail therefor.

The division of property and the provisions for alimony and support in the original decree were arrived at by stipulation which appears to have been generous in its terms toward the plaintiff. The defendant, at the time of the hearing in the lower…