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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FAILURE TO OBEY JUDGMENT TO PAY ALIMONY.
    Circuit Court of Hamilton County.
    George M. Galley v. Della Galley.
    Decided, December, 1910.
    
      Divorce and Alimony — Failure of Husband to Pay Alimony Awarded— Contempt Proceedings — Presumptions as to Findings of the Court— Mistake.
    
    A complaint filed in a contempt proceeding against a husband, who is in default for payment of alimony against him, is not insufficient in law because it contains no allegation that the defendant was able to pay alimony, but it will be presumed that the court heard evidence and found that the defendant was able to pay the amounts adjudged against him.
    
      C. S. Sparks, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Karl H. Caldwell, contra.
    Giffen, P. J.; Smith, J., and Swing, J., concur.
   The objection that the complaint is insufficient in law, because it contains no allegation that the defendant was able to pay alimony as decreed, is not sound, as the decree imports a finding that he is able to pay the money. State, on complaint of Cook, v. Cook, 66 O. S., 566.

In the absence of a bill of exceptions containing the evidence, if any were offered, the presumption will be that the defendant failed to establish his inability to pay.

It is not essential, though preferable, to prosecute a proceeding in contempt in the name of the state. In re Hamburger, ex parte, 19 C. C., 561.

Although the mittimus recites that the ease came on to be heard in the court of common pleas, it is apparent on the face of the paper that this was a clerical error in the use of a printed form, and that the commitment was in fact ordered by the court of insolvency after a hearing was had in such court.

Where a cause is submitted to the court, a finding made and judgment rendered, it will be-presumed that evidence was offered in support of such finding, although the judgment entry contains no recital that the cause was heard upon evidence. Haskins et al v. Alcott & Horton, 13 O. S., 210.

We find no prejudicial error and the judgment will be affirmed. It follows, also, that the defendant is lawfully imprisoned and that he be remanded to the custody of the sheriff.