Smithwick v. . Smithwick

This is an appeal by tbe defendant from a judgment attaebing bim for contempt and ordering bis imprisonment for failure to comply witb an order directing bim to pay a sum certain for tbe necessary subsistence of tbe plaintiff, bis wife, and of tbeir child, entered under tbe provisions of C. S., 1667.

Tbe record discloses tbat tbe plaintiff and defendant were married in 1934, tbat tbeir child was born in 1935, tbat be abandoned her in 1936; tbat in 1938, Armstrong, J., upon motion of tbe plaintiff, after notice to tbe defendant, entered an order tbat tbe defendant pay to tbe plaintiff tbe sum…