Crook v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a proceeding against the appellants, for a contempt for a breach of an injunction. The record in this case shows, that on the twenty-third day of June, A. D. 1853, one Daniel O’Keefe filed in the Circuit Court of Peoria county, a bill in chancery, for an injunction against the said George A. Crook, Hart P. Ancker, and one William. Senior.
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This was a proceeding against the appellants, for a contempt for a breach of an injunction. The record in this case shows, that on the twenty-third day of June, A. D. 1853, one Daniel O’Keefe filed in the Circuit Court of Peoria county, a bill in chancery, for an injunction against the said George A. Crook, Hart P. Ancker, and one William. Senior. That an injunction was allowed and a writ issued by the clerk of the said Circuit Court, on the day of the filing of the bill, and that the writ of injunction was duly served on the appellants, by the sheriff of Peoria county, on the 24tli day of…
1Opinion of the Court
Scates, 0. J.
Informations against persons for contempts, in disturbing the order of court in its presence or out of it, for breach of injunctions, and disobeying its orders and decrees, and such like, are not within the meaning, nor of the character of informations, in the 5th section of the act in relation to change of venue, Rev. Statutes, 528. Informations, within the meaning of said act, are such as are punishable under the provisions of the criminal code, upon presentment of the grand jury, informations filed ex-officio by the State’s attorneys, and on appeals from justices of the peace,…
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