Court Opinion

ID: 9532727
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Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:24:18.76277+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:49.670920
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*45On Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
On application for rehearing LAWSON, SIMPSON, GOODWYN, MERRILL and CLAYTON, JJ., are of the opim ion that a rehearing should be granted, so as to reverse the holding of the lower court on the question of contempt of Comer F. Green. This position is based on the theory that installment payments decreed in a divorce for support and education of the minor child of a marriage become final judgments as o'f the dates due and may 'be collected as other judgments. In support of this view they cite the following .authorities: Sistare v. Sistare, 218 U.S. 1, 30 S.Ct. 682, 54 L.Ed. 905; State ex rel. Casey v. Casey, 175 Or. 328, 153 P.2d 700, 172, A.L.R. 862; Whitby v. Whitby, 306 Ky. 355, 208 S.W.2d 68; Brown v. Brown, 66 Idaho 625, 165 P.2d 886; Adair v. Superior Court, 44 Ariz. 139, 33 P.2d 995, 94 A.L.R. 328; Hicks v. Hicks, 26 Tenn.App. 641, 176 S.W.2d 371; Reynolds v. Reynolds, 192 Okl. 564, 137 P.2d 914; Andrews v. Andrews, 171 Kan. 616, 237 P.2d 418; Bush v. Bush, 82 Ohio App. 255, 75 N.E.2d 832; Shuff v. Fulte, 344 Ill.App. 157, 100 N.E.2d 502; Millard v. Millard, 102 Cal.App.2d 249; 227 P.2d 477; Korczyk v. Solonka, 130 W.Va. 211, 42 S.E.2d 814.
Accordingly, the decree of the. lower court is reversed and the cause remanded on that phase of the decree óf the lower court and it is held that Comer F. Green became guilty of contempt upon failure to comply with the decree of the court when he failed to pay the accrued installments provided for in the decree. The court will enter an order giving Comer F. Green such additional time as it deems advisable to comply with the decree of divorce as to payments which are in arrears for the maintenance and support of the minor child, Jacqueline Green, provided that no payment shall be required until Jacqueline Green is first given to Mrs. S. P. Green •for custody and control as provided 'by the ■decree of .the court.
As to this holding of contempt LIVINGSTON, C. J., and STAKELY, J., dissent.
On that phase of the decree which granted custody of the child, Jacqueline Green, to Mrs. S.-P. Green, LIVINGSTON, C. J., and STAKELY, MERRILL and CLAYTON, JJ., are of the opinion that the decree of the lower court in that respect should be and is hereby affirmed. LAWr SON, SIMPSON and GOODWYN, JJ., dissent.