State ex rel. Webster v. Webster

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the circuit court entered August 24, 1951, which adjudged him guilty of an indirect contempt of court and sentenced him to serve a term in the Multnomah county jail unless he purged himself of the contempt by complying with an order entered by the same court March 28, 1951, the purported disobedience of which constituted the contempt. The order of March 28,1951, as disclosed by the affidavit of the relatrix, former wife of the defendant, directed him to pay her “forthwith” the sum of $1,500.

The affidavit of the relatrix, to which we have…