West Coast Reporter (Volume 9-10); Containing All the Decisions as Fast as Filed of the Following Courts United States Circuit and District Courts of (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886. Excerpt: ... Are the findings of fact and the admissions of the pleadings consistent with the judgment? It appears by the allegations of the complaint that on the seventeenth day of December, 1883, the respondent--plaintiff--obtained a decree in her behalf.dissolving the bonds of matrimony between herself and Richard Twell, in which it was ordered, adjudged, and decreed that said Richard Twell pay to respondent, as and for her alimony, the sum of fifty dollars per month, during the period of her natural life, or until the further order of the court, the first payment to be made on the day of the date of the decree, and the subsequent payments on the same date of each month thereafter. It was further ordered and adjudged in said decree that within fifteen days after the date thereof the said Richard Twell give security for the payment of said alimony by executing to the respondent, and filing in the court a bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the payment by the said Richard Twell, to the respondent, said sum of fifty dollars per month as in the said decree ordered to be paid. It was further ordered and adjudged that upon the failure of said Twell to give said bond as required, that he be adjudged in contempt of court, and that such proceedings thereupon be had to enforce and secure the payment of said sums allowed as alimony as might be necessary and proper, and according to the practice of the court in such cases. It further appears that said Richard Twell has failed to obey said decree, in that he has not paid said monthly installments for alimony, and has failed to give the security required, but on the contrary, has departed the territory without making any provision whatever for the payment of said alimo...