People Ex Rel. North American Investment & Loan Ass'n v. Kitzer

The municipal court of Chicago entered an order adjudging plaintiff in error, Philip Kitzer, guilty of contempt and sentenced him to imprisonment in the common jail of Cook county for thirty days. The order was entered in a supplemental proceeding upon the refusal of plaintiff in error to deliver to the bailiff of the municipal court an automobile, as he had been previously ordered to do by the court. An appeal was taken to the Appellate Court for the First District and the order of the municipal court affirmed. The cause is brought to this court by plaintiff in error upon writ of error.

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