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EX PARTE SUTHERLAND

No. B-5210.

526 S.W.2d 536 (1975)

Ex parte Vernon Douglas SUTHERLAND.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied September 24, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cornett, Echols & Baird, Leighton Cornett, Paris, for relator.

Kennedy & Minshew, Jack G. Kennedy and W. Lawrence Evans, Sherman, for respondent.

WALKER, Justice.

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding. Vernon Douglas Sutherland, relator, was adjudged guilty of contempt for violating the terms of a prior divorce judgment by failing to pay his former wife one-half of the "retainer pay" received by him as a member of the Fleet Reserve. He attacks the contempt order on two grounds: (1) the retainer pay received after rendition of the divorce judgment constitutes his separate earnings, relator contends, and...

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