Ex Parte Vaughn
Supreme Court of Alabama
Petition by Leila S. Vaughn (now Torgerson) for mandamus to be directed to Hon. Hugh A. Locke, one of the Judges in Equity of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, requiring him to restore petitioner’s demurrer and answer to a petition filed in said court against her. Petitioner was not in contempt. 162 Ala. 272, 50 South. 218; 151 111. App. 190; (C. C.) 181 Fed. 217; 9 Cyc. 11; 72 Fed. 14, 18 C. C. A. 410; 161 App.
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Petition by Leila S. Vaughn (now Torgerson) for mandamus to be directed to Hon. Hugh A. Locke, one of the Judges in Equity of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, requiring him to restore petitioner’s demurrer and answer to a petition filed in said court against her. Petitioner was not in contempt. 162 Ala. 272, 50 South. 218; 151 111. App. 190; (C. C.) 181 Fed. 217; 9 Cyc. 11; 72 Fed. 14, 18 C. C. A. 410; 161 App. Div. 215, 146 N. Y. Supp. 565; 70 Vt. 430, 41 Atl. 435. A party cannot be adjudged guilty of constructive contempt, and punished, without notice and an opportunity to be heard. 200 Ala.…
1Per curiam
In April, 1919, Leila S. Vaughn obtained a decree of divorce from her husband, William Vaughn, Jr., in the Jefferson county circuit court in equity, and was therein awarded the custody of their infant child, William Dudley Vaughn, in the following language:
“It is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the court that the care, custody, and control of William Dudley Vaughn, the minor child of complainant and respondent, be and hereby is given to complainant, with the right of the respondent to see and visit said child at such reasonable times and places as will not 'interfere with the proper…
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