PRESCOTT v. PRESCOTT

No. 34613.

52 Wn.2d 769 (1958)

329 P.2d 200

D. CLINTON PRESCOTT, Appellant, v. RUTH D. PRESCOTT, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.

August 21, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Little, LeSourd, Palmer, Scott & Slemmons, F.A. LeSourd, and John T. Piper (Anthony J. Felice of counsel), for appellant.

Mucklestone & Mucklestone, John P. Mucklestone, and Patricia J. Mucklestone (Gordon F. Crandall of counsel), for respondent.


FINLEY, J.

This is a proceeding in which a former husband was required to appear and show cause why he should not be adjudged in contempt for failure to comply with the alimony provisions contained in a decree of divorce. Despite the divorced status of each of the parties, we shall hereinafter refer to them as husband and wife.

The parties had been married for approximately twenty-eight years when the husband instituted divorce proceedings. The divorce was...

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