Hooks v. Gates

Shulman, Presiding Judge.

In a will dispute, a final judgment was entered granting appellee and her two sisters a specified portion of a parcel of property claimed by and in the possession of appellant. A little more than two months later, appellant was held in contempt of court upon a finding that he “failed to comply with” the previous judgment. Appellant was ordered confined for a set period unless he purged himself of the contempt by “not interfering with the possession of the [appellee] and her two sisters...” In this appeal, appellant enumerates as error the citation for contempt and the…