Connell v. Connell

Hawes, Justice.

Where, upon the trial of a citation for contempt brought by the wife against her former husband for failure to pay monthly instalments of alimony awarded to her as a part of a divorce decree for the support of three minor children, it appeared from the stipulation of facts that the defendant had, without the consent of the plaintiff, taken custody of the children who had been awarded by divorce decree to the plaintiff and had retained such custody for a period of approximately 29 months during which time he did not make the support pay-*769merits, the judge of the superior court…