Ackerman v. Congdon
Hawaii Supreme Court
The plain effect of the article is to prejudice the minds of the public unfavorably to the petitioner and his case now pending. The publication is therefore punishable as a contempt.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court, by
Judd, C.J. McCully, J., dissenting
At the instance of one J. H. Congdon, defendant in a case then pending in the Supreme Court, wherein H. Ackerman, master of the American schooner Geo. C. Perkins, was plaintiff, the Court issued a rule citing the respondents, H. M. Whitney and A. T. Atkinson, as publisher and editor respectively of the Hawaiian Gazette newspaper, to appear and show cause why they should not be adjudged guilty of a contempt of Court, in having printed and published in the said newspaper, in its issue of December 28th, 1886, the following article:
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