Barclay v. Barclay

On June 27,1899,- the defendant in error, upon a decree awarded to her for the payment of alimony in her suit for separate maintenance, on a petition, which was duly verified, showing that the sum of $532 was due her, after personal service of notice of the application therefor, obtained a rule on the plaintiff.in error, her husband, to show cause why he should not be attached for contempt of court for disobedience of the order of court requiring him to pay the alimony. To this rule the plaintiff in error filed his answer, in the nature of a plea in abatement, duly verified, averring that on…