Goodhart v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ op error to reverse an order of the City Court of New Haven (M'athewson, J.) adjudging the plaintiff guilty of contempt of court and requiring him to pay a fine of $25. The record contains a copy of the order of the City Court, which shows that the plaintiff, who was counsellor the defense in a criminal case then on trial in that court, “did behave in a contemptuous and disorderly manner towards said court, by making an untruthful statement in order to secure the…
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Writ op error to reverse an order of the City Court of New Haven (M'athewson, J.) adjudging the plaintiff guilty of contempt of court and requiring him to pay a fine of $25. The record contains a copy of the order of the City Court, which shows that the plaintiff, who was counsellor the defense in a criminal case then on trial in that court, “did behave in a contemptuous and disorderly manner towards said court, by making an untruthful statement in order to secure the admission of certain evidence”; and that it was thereupon ordered “that the said Jacob P. Goodhart pay a fine of $25 and that…
1DissentWheeler, J.
The opinion of this court holds the adjudication of contempt by the City Court of New Haven re viewable in case the City Court was without jurisdiction to adjudge the contempt; and it holds in case there were no facts before it from which a contempt such as it found could have been determined, it was without such jurisdiction. And this is true, because jurisdiction by a court of the subject-matter consists not only in having jurisdiction of the class of subjects to which the claimed contempt belongs, but in having before it facts from which the adjudication of contempt may legally be made. A…
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- Knight v. United States Land Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Andersen v. StateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1876
- Hurley v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Otis v. Superior Court of L.A. Cty.California Supreme Court · 1905
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