Carse v. Marsh

This is an application for a writ of prohibition to restrain the superior court of the county of San Diego from proceeding to punish the applicant herein for contempt, said contempt consisting in his alleged violation of the terms of an injunction issued in a cause then pending in said court.

The action wherein the order was issued, which the applicant is charged with having violated, was entitled United States, plaintiff, v. W. C. Carse, defendant, and was brought under the provisions of the act of Congress commonly known as the Volstead Act (41 Stats. 305, Fed. Stats. Ann. (1919 Supp.), p.…