Lanoix v. Home Indemnity Co. of New York

HIGGINS, Justice.

On October 18, 1943, the members of this Court ordered the resp.ondent attorney- at-law to show cause on November 8, 1943, why he should not be held in contempt of the authority of this Court for violating the provisions of Section 4 of our Rule X by using, in his application or petition for a writ of certiorari or review to the Court of Appeal of the First Circuit, language which was insulting and irrelevantly critical of two of the judges of that court.

On the return day, the counsel appeared in proper person and excepted to the jurisdiction of this Court to punish him for…