Carpenter v. Carpenter

SPECTOR, Chief Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of an order adjudging him to be in contempt for violating the terms of a restraining provision in a divorce decree.

The primary question raised by appellant is the sufficiency of the evidence to support the chancellor’s finding that appellant “failed and refused to abide by the restraining order enjoining him from harming the plaintiff [appellee former wife] as set forth in the Final Judgment of Divorce. * * * ”

The divorce decree provided that the mother had custody of their five minor sons, ranging in ages from toddlers to twelve years. The father…