Case ID: ill-app_204/html/0630-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Chris Jensen, Plaintiff in Error.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Error to the County Court of De Witt county; the Hon. Frederick C. Hill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Opinion filed April 16, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Proceeding by the People of the State of Illinois, plaintiff, against Chris Jensen, defendant, for contempt of court. From a judgment committing defendant to jail for four months and imposing a fine of one hundred dollars, defendant brings error.
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Contempt, § 5
      
      —when court no jurisdiction to enter order for. In a proceeding against a defendant for contempt of court, based upon a petition filed by his wife charging that he had failed to pay certain sums for the support in a certain boarding school of their children pursuant to an order of court, and that he had forcibly taken possession of one of said children from petitioner, to whom another order of court had awarded its custody, where the record failed to show the nature of the proceedings in which such orders were entered, or what such orders were, or to whom said sums- were to be paid, or that there was an order awarding to petitioner the custody of the children, or that defendant had any notice of such an order, held that no jurisdiction of the County Court to enter such orders or such judgment for contempt appeared.
    W. F. Gray, for plaintiff in error.
    L. 0. Williams, for defendant in error; E. B. Mitchell, of counsel.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Eldredge

delivered the opinion of the court.