MG Newell Co., Inc. v. Wyrick

PHILLIPS, Judge.

Of defendant’s numerous contentions one is moot, as well as fanciful and farfetched — that his constitutional rights were abridged by being required to state in purging himself of civil contempt that he understood the consent judgment he had signed and the nature and extent of plaintiffs business which he used to run. And three more — that the trial court never had jurisdiction over him, consequently the consent judgment is void, and the contempt findings are invalid in any event because they are based just on “past acts” — are groundless on the face of the record. For even if…