Gorham v. Gorham

Mrs. Gorham, upon application for temporary alimony, obtained a judgment against her husband, ordering tern-' porary alimony to be paid in monthly instalments. Subsequently she obtained a decree of total divorce, but prior to the decree several months had elapsed in which the husband failed to pay the instalments of temporary alimony which he had been ordered by the court to pay; ¿nd Mrs. Gorham brought a petition against him, requiring him to show cause why he should not be punished as for _ contempt because of the failure to pay temporary alimony prior *434to the divorce decree. The defendant…