Pettitt v. Henson

“A proceeding in an attachment for contempt is brought up on a fast writ the same as injunction cases.” Davis v. Davis, 138 Ga. 8, 15 (3) (74 S. E. 830); Stokes v. Stokes, 126 Ga. 804 (55 S. E. 1023) ; Gray v. Gray, 127 Ga. 345 (56 S. E. 438) ; Sweat v. Ga. Naval Stores Co., 129 Ga. 571 (59 S. E. 273); Civil Code (1910), §§ 6153, 5347. In the instant proceeding in the superior court to attach a legal constable for contempt, requiring him to deliver to the petitioner four bales of cotton or be attached, where the constable in his answer to' the rule nisi prayed an order “discharging…