Court Opinion

ID: 9598302
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:07:42.728652+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:40:14.334523
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Duckworth, Chief Justice,
dissenting. I dissent because the uncontradicted evidence in this case shows that, because of poor health, preventing the husband from earning funds with which to pay the alimony judgment, and this alone, he had paid only a small part; and the uncontradicted evidence showing that, at the time of the heai’ing, he possessed only the sum of $2 or $3, and had no other property and means of earning other funds, it was imprisonment for debt in violation of the Constitution to order this plaintiff in error to pay the sum of $300 before being “released from said jail.” See Blalock v. Blalock, 214 Ga. 586 (5) (105 S. E. 2d 721), and cases cited therein.