Castleman v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Washing-ton county. ITon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Castleman and others, appellants, were adjudged guilty of contempt of court and fined for violating a restraining order, and appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The restraining order was void and ineffectual for want of bond, as required by the statute; and its violation was no contempt.
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From the chancery court of Washing-ton county. ITon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Castleman and others, appellants, were adjudged guilty of contempt of court and fined for violating a restraining order, and appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The restraining order was void and ineffectual for want of bond, as required by the statute; and its violation was no contempt. It is well settled law that where an injunction is void or ineffectual, it is no contempt to violate it, and that where its issuance is made, by order of the. court, or by statute,…
1Opinion of the CourtMates, J.
This is an appeal by Oastleman and others from an adjudication of the chancery court of Washington county, adjudging *614them guilty of a contempt for Violating an order of the court given in an injunction proceeding. In reference to the question being litigated between complainants and defendants, several suits were filed, beginning with the suit filed by the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company against Castleman and the Delta Southern Railway on the 4th day of July, 1906, and numbered on the chancery docket of Washington county as 3,400, followed by the suit of the Belzoni Oil Co.…
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