Falkenberg v. Frank

On February 18, 1895,, the late Chief Justice Ehrlich made an order declaring the defendant guilty of a willful and .deliberate contempt, committed in the view and presence of the court, and directed the proper punishment of the judgment debtor in a summary way by issuing a commitment, in which he directed that the judgment debtor should at once pay a fine,, or immediately go to'jail.

The fine was paid in February, 1895, and the matter was then and there dropped, and so far as the proceeding was. concerned, ended, until January, 1897, when the judgment debtor made this motion to compel the…