Kirby v. Johnson

Beel, Justice.

1. Where a judgment was rendered against a husband and in favor of his wife for sums of money as permanent alimony, payable in instalments, for the support of their children, and the husband was adjudged in contempt for his failure to pay to her a sum past due as to one of the children (Kirby v. Johnson, 188 Ga. 49, 2 S. E. 2d, 640), the husband is not relieved from such contempt by payment of the sum to a guardian subsequently appointed for the child upon the child’s selection or nomination, after arrival at the age of fourteen years.

2. The alimony was obtained for the child at…