Berger v. North American Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Deen, Presiding Judge.
1. The motion to dismiss the appeal is denied. While the opinion in Moody v. Moody, 238 Ga. 257 (232 SE2d 842) (1977), on which appellee relies fails to state the facts of the case, examination of that record reveals that the contempt order there held not to be a final judgment was in fact a temporary order which while finding the defendant guilty suspended itself until another hearing, presumably to see whether the defendant caught up his child support payments in the meantime. Here the order is final.
2. An application for civil contempt is a motion, and an order based…
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