LUTZ v. DARBYSHIRE

No. 64136.

297 N.W.2d 349 (1980)

Bonnie L. LUTZ, Plaintiff, v. J. Hobart DARBYSHIRE, Judge in and for the District Court of Clinton County, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Farwell and Donald G. Senneff of Shaff, Farwell & Senneff, Clinton, for plaintiff.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and LeGRAND, HARRIS, McCORMICK and LARSON, JJ.


REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in this contempt of court proceeding to examine the power of defendant court, on the basis of mailed notice to plaintiff's attorney only, to impose a ten-day jail term on plaintiff for failing to comply with the economic provisions of a dissolution decree. We now sustain the writ.

Plaintiff Bonnie L. Lutz was married to Oliver S. Lutz. This marriage was terminated...

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