Bradshaw v. Bradshaw

This is a contempt proceeding to enforce the payment of alimony.

Cloyd Bradshaw has appealed to this Court from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wilson County adjudging him in contempt of court and imposing a fine of $25 and committing him to jail for ten days for refusing to pay alimony decreed by the court in granting Frances Hardy Bradshaw a divorce a mensa et thoro.

It appears from the record that Frances Hardy Bradshaw filed a petition in said court, in 1937, seeking divorce from Cloyd Bradshaw and alimony on the grounds of abandonment and failure and refusal to provide for her; that the…