Smith v. Cook
Supreme Court of Georgia
Contempt. Decided by Judge J. M. Clark. Baker county. Chambers. Cook filed a bill for injunction and the appointment of a Eeceiver, etc., against said Smith and D. D. Smith, in said county, touching certain cotton, on which Cook claimed a factor’s lien.
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Contempt. Decided by Judge J. M. Clark. Baker county. Chambers. Cook filed a bill for injunction and the appointment of a Eeceiver, etc., against said Smith and D. D. Smith, in said county, touching certain cotton, on which Cook claimed a factor’s lien. The prayer was that “they be enjoined from further interfering with the said crop of cotton that the same may be held for the purpose of discharging said drafts at maturity,” ******* and that a Eeceiver may be appointed by this Honorable Court, to take charge of said plantation and said farm, and have the cotton crop delivered in conformity to…
1Opinion of the CourtWarner, J.
This was a motion made in the Court below to punish the defendant for a breach of an injunction which had been issued against him. An injunction to restrain proceedings at law, or a special injunction to restrain some particular act, is usually directed to the party, his counselors, attorneys, solicitors and agents, or to his servants, workmen and agents, consequently, if they, or either of them, having had notice of the injunction, do anything inhibited by it, they will be guilty of contempt: 3d Daniels’ Chan. Practice, 1907. Where an injunction had issued upon a( creditor’s bill,…
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