Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Chambers
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 15, 1995No. 94-0495Published
1Opinion of the Court 1
898 S.W.2d 257 (1995)
Ex parte Franklin D. CHAMBERS
No. 94-0495.
Supreme Court of Texas.
Argued November 11, 1994.
Decided March 30, 1995.
Rehearing Overruled June 15, 1995.
Robert K. Frisch, Dallas.
Ray N. Donley, Jane M.N. Webre, Austin.
2Opinion of the Court · HightowerHightower, Justice
In this case we must decide whether a judgment of contempt was properly rendered against a corporate officer, director and shareholder for his personal failure to cause the corporation to pay a contempt fine previously adjudged against it. Although we find that the order was sufficiently specific to give rise to a personal duty on Chambers' part to obey it, we grant…
Also in this document: Concurrence; Dissent.
3Cases cited47 opinions
- Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Shillitani v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Castleberry v. BranscumTexas Supreme Court · 1986
- Regal Knitwear Co. v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Wilson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
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