Carter v. Carter

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court adjudging the appellant, E. R. Carter, in contempt and committing him to the county jail for a period of ten days as punishment for failure to pay alimony provided in the decree by which he and his then wife, Margaret Carter, were divorced.

The interlocutory decree was entered October 25, 1930, and, among other things, provided that the appellant should pay the sum of twenty dollars per month for the support and maintenance of the adopted minor child of the parties, then eleven years of age. Subsequently, and on the eighth of September,…