United States ex rel. White v. Walsh

LINDLEY, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding discharging relator from custody under sentence for six months imprisonment for contempt of court, because of his refusal to comply with a judgment for a writ of mandamus awarded by the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois. Our ultimate question of whether the sentencing court was without statutory authority to issue the contempt order, as the District Court found, in turn, depends upon whether that court , had authority to issue the writ which relator refused to obey, for, if the order for the writ was *51…