Pennell v. Superior Court

McLUCAS, J., pro tem.

This is an application for a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondents from conducting any further proceedings on account of an order to show cause why the petitioner should not be punished for contempt of court for failure to pay attorney’s fees in a divorce action as ordered and adjudged by the respondent court.

It appears from the pleadings that an interlocutory judgment of divorce was granted by respondent court on December 28, 1925, wherein it was ordered as follows: “It is further ordered that W. C. Pennell pay to Duke Stone, Esquire, attorney for plaintiff,…