Gray v. Gray
Supreme Court of Georgia
Buie for contempt. Before Judge Parker. Coffee superior court. April 16, 1906. Louise Gray brought an application for alimony and attorney’s fees against her husband, John H. Gray, and, upon the hearing, the judge directed the payment of certain amounts as alimony and attorney’s fees. The husband failed to pay, and the wife applied for an attachment for contempt.
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Buie for contempt. Before Judge Parker. Coffee superior court. April 16, 1906. Louise Gray brought an application for alimony and attorney’s fees against her husband, John H. Gray, and, upon the hearing, the judge directed the payment of certain amounts as alimony and attorney’s fees. The husband failed to pay, and the wife applied for an attachment for contempt. After the hearing the husband was committed to jail, there to remain until he complied with the order of the court. lie excepted to this ruling of the judge, upon the ground that the authority of the judge -to imprison was limited to…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, P. J.
(After stating the facts.)
1-3. The questions dealt with in the first and second headnotes require no elaboration. Whether a case of the character now under consideration should be brought to this court by fast writ of error or by ordinary writ of error is involved in some confusion, on account of apparently different rulings on the subject. In Williams v. Lampkin, 51 Ga. 214, there is a ruling that an exception to the judgment of a chancellor, attaching a defendant in an equity case, for contempt committed in violation of an injunction, can not be brought to this court by fast writ of error.…
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