Burns v. Huffman

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Three separate appeals have been filed here, being appeals by Robert M. Burns, Louis Gerhardt, and Daniel Pasig, respectively city civil engineer, mayor and chief of police of the city of Terre Haute, from judgments finding each of them guilty of contempt, and assessing fines against them severally for alleged violations of a temporary restraining order, issued upon a complaint upon which no summons had been issued or placed in the hands of the sheriff when the restraining order was issued; which was issued in vacation, without notice, upon a complaint verified on information and belief, as…