Hunter v. Hunter

The first issue raised by appellant in his attack on the trial court’s three-day contempt order is as follows: Did the circuit court for Milwaukee county have jurisdiction to hold appellant in contempt for failing to obtain permission to remarry, when at the time of such contempt proceedings an appeal from the judgment of divorce was pending before this court?

Put another way, the issue is whether the lower court had jurisdiction to find appellant in contempt when an appeal from the entire original judgment of divorce, except that part which granted an absolute divorce, was pending before this…