Wells v. Wells

Citations

• 99 Wash. 492
• 169 P. 970
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 657

Syllabus

<p>. Divorce—Support oe Children—Contempt—Ability—Evidence— Sufficiency. A judgment of contempt in failing to pay alimony for the support of children is unwarranted by the fact that the delinquent father might abandon his employment of crab fishing, which had become unprofitable, and learn a new trade, where the preponderance of the evidence showed his inability to make the payments and he purged himself of any wilful and contumacious intention to avoid payment of the money, his inability being real, but apparently only temporary.</p>