Johnson v. Johnson

JACKSON, Justice.

The parties are designated as they appeared in the trial court.

This appeal is taken by Wilburn Johnson, defendant, in a divorce action pending in the District Court of McCurtain County, from a judgment and order of commitment ordering that he he confined in the County Jail until he shall have purged himself of contempt by paying the sum of $4,050 to his wife, Theresa Johnson, the plaintiff.

Action for divorce was commenced on March 19, 1954. On March 20, 1954, the trial court entered an ex parte order by which the defendant, Wilburn Johnson, was ordered to pay $250 per month…