SMITH v. SMITH

No. 529.

100 S.E.2d 370 (1957)

247 N.C. 223

John O. SMITH v. Myrtle Irene Kinney SMITH (Burrow).

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ottway Burton, Asheboro, for plaintiff-appellant.

No counsel contra.


JOHNSON, Justice.

The order requiring the plaintiff to make payments for the support of his child is sufficient in form to be enforced by attachment for contempt. True, the order was entered by consent of the parents, but even so, the child was under the protective custody of the court. G.S. § 50-13. And the terms of the order in respect to maintenance payments to be made by the father, though fixed by consent, were nonetheless decreed by the court to be fulfilled...

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