People ex rel. Brundage v. Peters

This is an original petition for writ of mandamus, filed by leave in this court, praying that the writ be awarded commanding Charles W. Peters, sheriff of Cook county, to take into custody certain persons named who had been adjudged guilty of contempt for refusing to obey the order and judgment of the circuit court. Some of them had been sentenced to pay fines and to be imprisoned in the county jail, and others to pay fines, only.

It seems unnecessary to set out a detailed statement of the litigation preceding the judgment for contempt. It is sufficient to say the contempt proceeding grew out…