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COLES v. COLES

No. 3420.

202 A.2d 394 (1964)

Marilyn Atwood COLES, Appellant, v. Marvin J. COLES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 17, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Bress, Leonard Braman and J. H. Krug, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Roger Robb, with whom Kenneth Wells Parkinson, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

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

QUINN, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal by the wife from an order holding her in contempt of court and committing her to jail for forty-eight hours for violating a pendente lite custody order. The facts necessary to an understanding of the appeal are as follows.

On May 29, 1963, the husband filed a complaint for a limited divorce and custody of the infant child of the parties. Thereafter the wife counterclaimed for a limited divorce, alimony and custody...

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