Sybilrud v. Sybilrud

Stone, Justice.

Appeal by defendant from a judgment that he was in contempt for failure to make the payments ordered in a suit for separate maintenance. The opinion on appeal in the latter suit (No. 32,315) is filed herewith. Sybilrud v. Sybilrud, 207 Minn. 371, 291 N. W. 606.

Unsound is the argument for defendant that under our statutes the district court has no authority to punish as for contempt the violation of an order directing the husband to make payments for the separate maintenance of his wife. We exclude from consideration 2 Mason Minn. St. 1927, § 9793(3), providing for the punish…