Ramsey v. Womack

Ducicworth, Chief Justice.

Where, as here, the defendant, after a citation for contempt and a hearing thereon, is held in contempt for obstructing a private way which the injunctive order he is cited as having violated enjoined him from doing as well as from trespassing on petitioner’s property, the citation is not void, as the court had jurisdiction of the parties and the subject matter, even though the original prayer was only to enjoin the trespass and “for such other and further relief as to the court may seem reasonable and just”; there being no objection thereto and the pleadings being…