Baxley v. Jackson

HUNTER, Judge.

Timothy O. Jackson, Leisa S. Jackson, and Rosewood Investments, L.L.C. (collectively “defendants”) appeal from orders of the trial court finding them in civil contempt and awarding plaintiff attorneys’ fees. We affirm in part the order of the trial court finding defendants in civil contempt but vacate that portion of the order awarding attorneys’ fees, as well as the order entered 14 June 2005 awarding attorneys’ fees.

The procedural history of the instant case is a long and complicated one. On 21 December 2000, Rudolph Leonard Baxley, Jr. (“plaintiff’) filed a complaint against…