Snyder v. Powell

Mr. Presiding Justice Brown

delivered the opinion of the court.

The basis for the commitment for contempt involved in this canse was the order of August 8, 1906, made in amendment of and as a substitute apparently for the previous order of August 3, 1906. It is to disobedience, or, as it is expressed, “defiance” of one or both of these orders to which the court refers in its somewhat indefinite order of commitment on August 10. But presumably it is the order of August 8 which is actually relied on, for that order contains a less drastic direction to the constable, Snyder, than the one of August…