In re Pierce
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPLICATION for a Habeas Corpus. Ida Louisa Pierce presented her petition to this court foi a writ of habeas corpus, in wbicb she alleged that sbe was unlawfully restrained of her liberty, and imprisoned in the common jail of the county of .La Orosse, by Charles L. Halstead, sheriff of said county, for a supposed contempt in disobeying a decree of the circuit court for that county, made in an action for a divorce, in which Fred.
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APPLICATION for a Habeas Corpus. Ida Louisa Pierce presented her petition to this court foi a writ of habeas corpus, in wbicb she alleged that sbe was unlawfully restrained of her liberty, and imprisoned in the common jail of the county of .La Orosse, by Charles L. Halstead, sheriff of said county, for a supposed contempt in disobeying a decree of the circuit court for that county, made in an action for a divorce, in which Fred. P. Alter was plaintiff, and the pe> titioner, by the name of Ida Louisa Alter, was defendant. She prayed in her petition that a writ of habeas corpus might issue…
1DissentByaN, C. J.
I. I cannot bring myself to believe this a case for the exercise of the original jurisdiction of this court.
The imprisonment was under an order of the circuit court for contempt; in my judgment, a contempt of very gross *428character, wliicli no court respecting its own jurisdiction or the safety of judicial administration could overlook; a contempt so deliberate, plain and undisguised, as, going unpunished, has a direct tendency to subvert judicial authority, and to encourage disregard and defiance of the orders and judgments of all courts; subordinating solemn adjudications to personal will and…
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