Oliver v. Orrick

— The plaintiff in this case is an operator of carnivals in and about the city of St. Louis, and the defendants are members of the Board of Police Commissioners of the city of St. Louis. The defendants were fined for contempt of court, and bring the- ease here on appeal. A history of the litigation out of which the contempt case arose, and the proceedings leading up to the finding of the defendants guilty of contempt, may be stated as follows:

The plaintiff brought an injunction suit, in which he alleged that he had leased various lots of ground in the city of St. Louis, for the purpose of…