Pinckard v. Pinckard
Supreme Court of Georgia
Libel for Divorce, in Monroe Superior Court. Decision by Judge Cabiness, at Chambers, July, 1857. Motion to commit for contempt.
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Libel for Divorce, in Monroe Superior Court. Decision by Judge Cabiness, at Chambers, July, 1857. Motion to commit for contempt. In answer to a rule, calling upon John Pinckard, the de~ Cendant below, to show cause at Chambers, why he should not be committed for a contempt of the Court, in failing and refusing to pay a certain sum or sums of money, which, by a former order of the Court, made in this case, he was required and directed to do, for counsel fees and alimony pendente lite, adjudged to libellant. Respondent showed for cause, 1st. That he could not be called on to answer, nor could…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
The answer of John Pinekard to the rule nisi, was, that he had had no money or effects, out of which to pay the money required of him except, about twenty-five dollars in cash,(which he had spent in clothing and other necessaries, for himself and a son about eight years old,) and a negro man and a negro boy whose joint hire was exhausted in the support of himself and his said son. That by reason of bodily infirmity he was wholly unable to labor for any purpose *288whatever; and that his failure to pay said money was not from a design on his part to…
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