Grant v. Superior Court

This is a proceeding to review an order of the trial court holding petitioner in contempt for disobedience of certain provisions of a final judgment of divorce. The principal question for our determination is whether the court below had jurisdiction in the first place to make the underlying divorce order now sought to be enforced by contempt. We have concluded that it did not. For convenience we refer to the parties herein as they appeared below, that is to say, to the real party in interest as the plaintiff and to the petitioner herein as the defendant.

On November 4, 1953, the plaintiff Ella…