Ex Parte Von Gerzabek

Petitioner seeks to be discharged from the custody of the sheriff of the city and county of San Francisco, by whom he is held under an order of the superior court adjudging him guilty of contempt in failing and refusing to' pay certain sums as alimony in a divorce proceeding.

The record shows that on the third day of April, 1922, the court below in the divorce action entered an order requiring petitioner to pay the sum of $50 on or before the fourteenth day of April, 1922, and a like sum on or before the seventh day of each and every month thereafter until the further order of the court as and…