In Re Kolb

Heretofore the petitioner filed a petition in this court' asking that a writ of habeas corpus issue, and pursuant to such a request a writ was issued and made returnable before the court. ' Thereafter the writ was served upon Thomas F. Finn, as sheriff of the city and county of San Francisco, and the said sheriff made his return in which he set forth that on the thirteenth day of November, 1922, he received said Fred W. Kolb under a certain order of the superior court. He then sets forth in words and figures a copy of said order from which it appears that heretofore an interlocutory decree of divorce was duly and regularly entered in a case in which Fred W. Kolb was plaintiff and Vera A. Kolb was defendant; that said decree was based on the defendant’s cross-complaint, and adjudged that the defendant was entitled to a decree of divorce and awarded to the defendant maintenance for herself and minor child; that thereafter, on the eighth day of November, 1922, an order to show cause issued out of the trial court and was served on this petitioner, commanding him to appear and show cause on the tenth day of November, 1922, why he should not be punished for contempt of court for failing…