Phillips v. Phillips

— This is a contempt proceeding brought by Louise Pauline Phillips in January, 1931, against Marion Eoss Phillips, because of his failure to pay support money. The appeal is from an order of the superior court adjudging him to be in contempt of court, but that the same might be purged by his paying plaintiff fifty dollars per month beginning as of January 1, 1931, until the sum of $1,839 is paid, else he be committed to jail and confined until released by order of court.

The record discloses that the parties were divorced by a judgment of the superior court for King county, in which cause a…