Gillette v. Coffer
District Court, D. Alaska
The plaintiff in this proceeding petitions for a writ of review, to review an order entered by J. E: Coffer, commissioner and ex officio justice of the peace for Hot Springs precinct, on the 3d day of September, 1912, wherein the plaintiff was adjudged guilty of contempt of the commissioner’s court of that precinct, by reason of certain matters contained in an affidavit filed in a criminal action pending therein on the 19th day of April, 1912, and adjudging that the…
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The plaintiff in this proceeding petitions for a writ of review, to review an order entered by J. E: Coffer, commissioner and ex officio justice of the peace for Hot Springs precinct, on the 3d day of September, 1912, wherein the plaintiff was adjudged guilty of contempt of the commissioner’s court of that precinct, by reason of certain matters contained in an affidavit filed in a criminal action pending therein on the 19th day of April, 1912, and adjudging that the petitioner pay a fine of $25, and eliminate from the affidavit filed the matters therein deemed objectionable.
1Opinion of the Court
OVERFIELD, District Judge.
It appears from the petition that the plaintiff did, on said 3d day of September, 1912, pay the amount of the fine imposed, and did eliminate from the affidavit theretofore filed by him the matter deemed objectionable by the commissioner, and described in his order adjudging plaintiff guilty of contempt. It is apparent, therefore, that any order or judgment that this court might make upon the return to such writ would be ineffectual to restore the plaintiff the fine paid by him, or in any way to relieve him from the effect of said judgment, and that at most such…
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