Sturm

These petitioners, Dorothy Sturm and Isadore Sturm, having both petitioned this court for relief from a judgment of contempt entered by the respondent court in an action for divorce in which Dorothy was plaintiff and Isadore was defendant, we, by stipulation of the parties, consolidated the two matters and issued a writ of certiorari under which we now have for review both judgments of contempt. We have reached the conclusion that the court was without power to enter either judgment of contempt and that both must be annulled.

On November 10, 1960, there came before the respondent court an order to show cause directed to Isadore, by which he was required to show cause why he should not be held in *393 contempt for, among other things, failing to obey an order of the court that he remove certain of his personal property from in front of a residence that had been awarded to Dorothy by a former order of the court, and an order to show cause directed to Dorothy requiring her to show cause why she should not be held in contempt for preventing Isadore from removing said personal property from said premises. The court did not dispose of either of these matters on that date but entered an…