State Ex Rel. Lay v. District Court, Fourth Judicial District

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

Original application for writ of certiorari by the state, on the relation of Presley E. Lay, against the district court of the fourth judicial district in and for the county of Ravalli, and Albert Besancon, judge presiding.

Relator Lay, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was adjudged guilty of contempt for willful disobedience of an order in a divorce decree requiring him to pay specified monthly installments for the support of his infant child.

From the record the following appears: By decree entered May 31, 1946, in the respondent court, Priscilla Lay,…