Barrett v. Barrett

Defendant having failed to make the payments awarded by the court for temporary alimony, was guilty of contempt and subject, in the discretion of the court, to punishment therefor.

It appeared that he had the custody of and had entirely supported one of the two children, for whose care by plaintiff the order contemplated and had provided. The learned justice, by whom the motion to punish was heard, felt that plaintiff having been relieved by defendant from support of one of the children, his partial default in payment was not such as to impair, impede or prejudice the rights of the wife; that…