State Ex Rel. Erhardt v. MacGillivray

The plaintiffs in a civil action pending in Spokane county (hereinafter referred to as the appellants) seek, in this proceeding, to have one of the attorneys for the defendants in that civil action (hereinafter referred to as the alleged contemnor) punished for contempt under the provisions of RCW 7.20.

We have, in Keller v. Keller (1958), ante p. 84, 323 P. (2d) 231, very recently had occasion to discuss and clarify our contempt statutes and procedures. As there indicated, RCW 7.20 has been variously denominated as the “civil contempt statute” and the “general contempt statute,” as…