Carper v. Carper

Citations

• 94 Miss. 598
• 48 So. 186

Syllabus

<p>Divorce. Alimony. Enforcement of decree. Contempt proceedings. Imprisonment for debt.</p> <p>Where, In a divorce suit joined with a proceeding in the nature of an attachment in chancery for alimony, the complainant wife obtained a decree against the defendant husband for alimony pendente lite and suit money which ordered the husband’s codefendants to pay into court the sums admitted by .them to be due the husband, the codefendants, debtors of the husband, cannot be adjudged in contempt of court for failure to make payment as directed.</p>