Gates v. M'Daniel
Supreme Court of Alabama
QUESTION IN THIS CASE. Relative to attachment, for cpntemjpt of Court,- ly breach of injunction. On the 20th February, 1830, Samuel Gates petitioned the judge of the sixth judicial circuit, for process, against Thomas M’Daniel, for having violated an injunction.
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QUESTION IN THIS CASE. Relative to attachment, for cpntemjpt of Court,- ly breach of injunction. On the 20th February, 1830, Samuel Gates petitioned the judge of the sixth judicial circuit, for process, against Thomas M’Daniel, for having violated an injunction. The petition represented, that before that time, the said Crates had filed a bill in the Chancery Court of Covington, to restrain the said M’Daniel from the use of a bridge, built by him, near a ferry of the said Gates, established by proper license : that, on a final hearing, the injunction obtained by him, was dissolved, and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Collier, J.t
The plaintiff in this Court, (who was plaintiff below,) presented his petition, sustained by two affidavits, to' the judge of the Circuit Court of Covington, stating that the'-defendant liad committed a' breach of an injunction, issued at his instance, against the defendant; and praying that an order might be made, directing that his body might be taken and detained, until he should enter into bond, *358with adequate penalty, to perform, keep, &c. the orders and decrees of the Court, made'in that case. — =•
On the petition, the judge made an order, substantially conforming to its…
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