Goodin v. Goodin

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Last month the Sevier chancery court granted the appellee a divorce and ordered her husband, the appellant, to make monthly payments for the support of the appellee and the couple’u two minor children. The appellant, after filing his notice, of appeal, presented a supersedeas bond to the clerk of the trial court and obtained from him a writ of supersedeas.

Upon the appellant’s failure to make the first monthly payment as provided by the decree the appellee instituted contempt proceedings. The appellant resisted the charge of contempt on the theory that the monetary…