Ex parte Todd
California Supreme Court
HABEAS CORPUS in the Supreme Court to the Sheriff of Sacramento County, to test the validity of an order of the Superior Court of Sacramento County imprisoning the petitioner for contempt of court. E. C. Hart, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
Petitioner’s wife obtained a decree of divorce, including an order for the payment of permanent alimony in weekly installments. After paying two hundred and eighty dollars, the petitioner ceased making further payments, and, at the instance of the plaintiff in the divorce suit, was cited by the superior court to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of the order of the court in failing to pay the sum of two hundred dollars in arrears, and also to show cause why he should not pay to plaintiff said sum of two hundred dollars.
Petitioner appeared in response to the…
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