Butler v. Butler
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Jewell district court; Richard M. Pickler, judge. STATEMENT. James T. Butler was adjudged guilty of an indirect contempt and appeals from the judgment.
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Appeal from Jewell district court; Richard M. Pickler, judge. STATEMENT. James T. Butler was adjudged guilty of an indirect contempt and appeals from the judgment. In a suit for divorce by Barbara E. Butler against James T. Butler a judgment was rendered refusing a divorce, but awarding to the wife certain lands belonging to the defendant, and containing the following order: “It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the defendant shall be and is hereby required to join in any conveyance which the plaintiff may request him to execute sufficient to devest her of, or limit her interest…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Benson, J.:
A motion is made to dismiss this appeal for want of an abstract. We agree with counsel that the abstract of the appellant is quite insufficient. The petition and affidavit upon which the contempt proceedings were founded, and the answer thereto, are not abstracted. Some of the evidence is set out in the abstract, but more is contained in the brief. The abstract and brief are so intermingled that it is difficult to distinguish between them; but the appellee has properly supplied these omissions by furnishing a counter abstract, and, the case…
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