ADAMS v. ADAMS

No. 3014.

184 A.2d 213 (1962)

Harriet Rita ADAMS, Appellant, v. Thomas William C. ADAMS, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided September 18, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Garvin, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Nicholas J. Chase, Washington, D. C., with whom Ivan J. Potts, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee. Barnum L. Colton, Jr., Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.


QUINN, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court holding appellant in contempt. Appellee urges that this court should either dismiss the appeal or in the alternative, stay the appeal until appellant returns the children of the parties to the jurisdiction of the court so that his right of visitation might be complied with.

The parties were married in May 1946 in Blackburn, England, while appellee was serving in the armed forces, and...

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