Raiden v. Superior Court

In this proceeding the petitioner, an attorney, seeks by certiorari to review and annul an order holding him in contempt of the respondent superior court and imposing a fine of $50 which was paid under protest.

The petition shows that the alleged contempt was committed in the course of the petitioner’s argument of a motion for a new trial on behalf of the defendant in an action for divorce between Richard Edward Reeves and Annabelle Reeves in the Superior Court in Los Angeles County.

The wife in that action was a minor 19 years of age. She resided with their two children in Nevada where she had…