Croft v. Croft

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court declaring the defendant in contempt, and imposing an imprisonment in the county jail for thirty days, unless he sooner pay the sum of $986. The parties to this action were formerly husband and wife, and were divorced by decree of the superior court on June 17, 1908, which decree awarded to the plaintiff, the wife, the custody of the two minor children, then aged respectively seven and eight years. On September 2, 1908, the decree was modified on petition of the plaintiff so as to require the defendant to pay to her, for the support of…