Frank v. Herold
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On application for a rehearing of an appeal from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Pitney.
1Per curiam
The appellants were adjudged guilty-'of a contempt, and were fined and sentenced to imprisonment íor a period of sixty days, by the court of chancery, for willfully violating a restraining order of that court. The appeal was dismissed, upon the ground that the proceedings were punitive in their character, taken solely for the purpose of vindicating the authority and dignity of the court, and were, consequently, not reviewable.
A rehearing of the matter is now asked for, because, as it is said, the court of chancery was without power to make the order appealed from, so far as it sentences the…
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