Openshaw v. Openshaw

PRATT, District Judge.

A contempt proceeding arising out of an alleged failure of the defendant, Clarence R. Openshaw, to comply with the terms of a decree of divorce granted to plaintiff Margaret C. Openshaw on April 4, 1931. From that decree defendant appealed. On the 9th day of May, 1932, while the appeal was pending, counsel for the plaintiff filed in the lower court an affidavit for an order to show cause, alleging that defendant had “willfully and contumaciously” failed to comply with the decree: That he had not executed the deed for certain described real estate; that he had not paid…