In re Murphey
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Tbe circuit court made an injunctional order in a civil - cause, restraining the plaintiffs therein, their attorneys, etc., from procuring an order from any court or officer preventing or interfering with a sale, as theretofore advertised, of certain lands which the judgment in the cause directed to be sold. Mr. Murphey was not a party to that action, but was attorney for the plaintiffs therein.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Tbe circuit court made an injunctional order in a civil - cause, restraining the plaintiffs therein, their attorneys, etc., from procuring an order from any court or officer preventing or interfering with a sale, as theretofore advertised, of certain lands which the judgment in the cause directed to be sold. Mr. Murphey was not a party to that action, but was attorney for the plaintiffs therein. Subsequently such proceedings were had in the same court, that an order was made or judgment rendered by the court convictiríg Mr. Murphey of a…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
The defendant was convicted of willful disobedience of an order of the court, and was adjudged in contempt because of such disobedience, and fined therefor. Looking at its results (whatever it may have been in its inception), the proceeding is not a controversy between certain parties to the civil action out of which it arose, and the appellant, in which the former seek indemnity for the wrongful act of the latter, *287Rut a public prosecution, by which the state seeks to vindicate tbe authority of one of its courts and to punish the defendant for an alleged interference therewith. It is quite…
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