Attaway v. Attaway

Bell, Justice.

In response to a rule nisi requiring the defendant to show cause why he should not be attached for contempt by failure to pay his wife certain sums of money awarded to her by a judge of the superior court as temporary alimony, and other sums awarded by verdict and decree as permanent alimony, both payable in monthly instalments, the defendant pleaded, among other things, that he had recovered in a city court a judgment against his wife, for the value and hire of an automobile, in a stated sum which “would more than satisfy the plaintiff’s demand.” It appeared that this was a…