City of Lawton v. Barbee

ALMA WILSON, Justice:

The resolution of this case rests on a single issue, whether a person who is convicted of indirect contempt of court for breach and disobedience of a permanent injunction must be allowed to purge himself of contempt in lieu of incarceration. We hold that 12 O.S.1981, § 1390 requires that under such circumstances a party must be allowed to purge himself of contempt in lieu of being incarcerated.

On February 8, 1983, the Lawton City Council adopted a resolution declaring that the accumulation of inoperable vehicles, heavy equipment and miscellaneous junk and debris in and…