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EX PARTE NIVENS

No. 17547.

592 S.W.2d 1 (1979)

Ex parte Gregory Curtis NIVENS, Relator.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

August 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald N. Hayes, Houston, for appellant.

Michael L. Laviage, Houston, for appellee.

WALLACE, Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding by which relator seeks release from custody of the county sheriff. This court ordered him released on bond after he had served 37 days in the county jail for contempt of a district court order to pay child support. Relator urges both impossibility of performance and ambiguity of the contempt order.

Relator did not file a statement of facts of the contempt hearing, so we are unable to determine whether he...

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