Red Star Laboratories Co. v. Pabst

Edmund Friedolin Pabst was adjudged guilty of contempt and sentenced to jail by the circuit court of Cook county for refusal to obey an order of that court relative to the production of certain documents in the above entitled cause. He has prosecuted an appeal to this court.

The Red Star Laboratories Company, appellee, filed a bill of complaint in the circuit court against appellant, doing business as Pabst Chemical Company. The bill, as later amended, alleged that since the year 1921 appellee was engaged in the preparation of and sale to retail druggists for re-sale, a medicine known as…