Johnson v. Rolston

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE RECHENMACHER

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by defendant from an order finding him in contempt of court for “willfully” refusing to comply with an order directing him to comply with an order entered more than one year earlier.

The sole issue presented is whether the defendant’s incarceration under such circumstances violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment and article I, section 14, of the Illinois Constitution forbidding imprisonment for debt as therein provided.

After a default judgment was entered for *312.50 against the…