Gatuso v. Gatuso

This appeal involves two questions:

1. What discretion does the Chancellor have when he is asked to hold in contempt a husband who has not obeyed an order to pay alimony, support and maintenance?

2. What discretion does the Chancellor have to enter an order which goes beyond the relief prayed or the issues framed in the pleadings?

The answer to the first is that he has such discretion, that it is very broad, and that its exercise will not be disturbed on appeal unless clearly abused. The answer to the second is that he has no authority, discretionary or otherwise, to rule upon a question not…