Fellman v. Mercantile Fire & Marine Ins.

The relator made some remark in the court room while court was still in session, but while the judge was off the bench, and out of the hearing of the judge. Upon hearing of it, the judge ascended the bench, directed the relator to be brought before him, and heard the statement of the crier of the court regarding what relator had said, and refusing to hear relator, but, he says, after hearing the counsel of the relator, sentenced relator to fine and imprisonment for contempt. Relator complains that inasmuch as the judge had no personal knowledge of what had taken place, he should have heard…