State ex rel. Ditmar v. Ditmar

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

On the 3d of May, 1895, the respondent procured a divorce from the appellant and in that case the court distributed the property between the respondent and appellant, and it was further decreed that appellant should also pay off the mortgage of $500 which the parties had executed upon the homestead, which the court decreed to respondent. In May, 1897, the mortgage not having been paid off, upon the petition and affidavit of the respondent an order was issued to show cause why the appellant should not be punished for contempt. Upon the trial…