JOHNSON v. JOHNSON

[No. 157, September Term, 1965.]

241 Md. 416 (1966)

216 A.2d 914

JOHNSON v. JOHNSON

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 15, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Hennessey for appellant.

Donald T.A. Fair, with whom were Edward S. Vidali and Fair, Vidali, Wagner & Evering on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER and BARNES, JJ.


HORNEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question posed by this appeal is whether, under the circumstances of this case, a father, charged with the support of his children, should have been imprisoned until he purged himself of contempt for failure to pay in full the arrearages that had accumulated over a period of several years.

When the father was divorced from the mother of their three children on October 19, 1961, he was ordered to pay the mother...

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