State ex rel. Lanning v. Lonsdale
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lao County. This is a proceeding against..the appellant, Lonsdale, as for a contempt, to enforce a civil remedy.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lao County. This is a proceeding against..the appellant, Lonsdale, as for a contempt, to enforce a civil remedy. The alleged contempt consisted in the refusal of Lonsdale to answer certain interrogatories propounded to him when giving his deposition as a witness before a court commissioner of Milwaukee county, in an action pending in the circuit court for Fond du Lac county, in which the relators are plaintiffs and one Lewis'E. Reed is defendant. That action is to recover damages for an alleged libel contained in a letter which it is charged the…
1Opinion of the Court
LyoN, J\
1. The first question to be determined is, Has the circuit court for Fond dn Lac county jurisdiction to punish the appellant for contempt, because of his refusal, when giving his deposition, to answer the interrogatories put to him, and to produce the correspondence required of him? Counsel for the appellant assert that the court commissioner taking the *363deposition has power, under section 4066, E. S., to punish him for the alleged contempt, and they maintain that the jurisdiction to do so is exclusive.
If it be conceded that the power to punish for the contempt is conferred upon the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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