Dunnigan v. Murray Transp. Co.

(after all parties had rested at the end of the case).

*503I hold Joseph Dunnigan in criminal contempt of this court for having willfully testified falsely regarding a material matter in these causes.

I. In open court, just before we adjourned yesterday, I told Mr. Ash, the counsel for the libelant, Catherine Dunnigan, that in my opinion Joseph Dunnigan, her son, had consciously and willfully perjured himself in the evidence which he had given on this trial when he said he was on board the scow Dunnigan Sisters on Sunday evening, January 20, 1929, and saw the accident.

II. I was coming to this…