Laramie National Bank v. Steinhoff
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to tbe District Court for Albany County, Hon-Charles W. Bramel, Judge. Proceedings in contempt for the violation of an injunction. The case and material facts are stated in the' opinion. Contempt proceedings are the usual and appropriate means of enforcing an injunction, temporary or perpetual. (2 High on Inj., 1449; Rev. Stat., Sec. 2929). The. statute is not directory but mandatory.
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Error to tbe District Court for Albany County, Hon-Charles W. Bramel, Judge. Proceedings in contempt for the violation of an injunction. The case and material facts are stated in the' opinion. Contempt proceedings are the usual and appropriate means of enforcing an injunction, temporary or perpetual. (2 High on Inj., 1449; Rev. Stat., Sec. 2929). The. statute is not directory but mandatory. (Suth. on Stat. Const., 461, 462; State v. Me Clinton (Wash.), 48 Pac. 740.) That class of contempts brought mainly to preserve or protect the rights of litigants, are in the nature of civil executions…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff in error originally brought an action against the defendant; in error, claiming in the petition to be in actual possession of a certain tract of land, and that the defendant in error asserted an estate therein, and had trespassed upon the land, and threatened to continue the trespasses, that he was unable to respond in damages,. and prayed that the plaintiff might be adjudged the owner in fee simple of the premises free from all claims of an estate or interest therein of the defendant, and that the latter be enjoined from interfering with the possession of…
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