Garroutte v. Garroutte

BERRY, Vice Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from judgment and jail sentence imposed upon plaintiff in error for indirect civil contempt. The sole question is whether failure to comply with a trial court’s order for delivery of personal property constitutes a civil contempt, when contemnor’s failure to comply does not result from fault upon his own part?

Ethel Garroutte sued plaintiff in error for divorce, alimony and equitable property division. On May 25, 1965, the trial court granted divorce, set over to each the separate property brought into the marital community, and decreed equitable…