Brill v. Brill
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Abraham Brill, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the. clerk of the county of New York on the 9th day of October, 1911, resettling an order entered on the 22d day of September, 1911, adjudging the defendant guilty of contempt of court in failing to pay the sum of eighty-four dollars alimony and directing that he be committed to jail until he pay said sum or be discharged according to law.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
The respondent was granted a final judgment of divorce on May 17, 1907, which required the defendant to pay her the sum of forty-five dollars weekly for her support and the support and education of their son. That judgment was modified on June 29, 1908, by striking out the provision for the payment of forty-five dollars a week alimony and substituting in lieu thereof a provision requiring the payment of twenty dollars weekly for the support, maintenance and education of Leighton K. Brill, the son of the plaintiff and the defendant. The defendant paid the twenty dollars weekly to…
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