Ex parte Stickney
Supreme Court of Alabama
Application by H. G. Stickney, William Owens, H. O. Caulkins, and J. W. Bennett, for the writ of prohibition, or other remedial process, to be issued to the circuit court of Montgomery, for the purpose of vacating and setting aside an order made by that court at its December term, 1865, (Hon. E. Bugbee presiding,) in the matter of an alleged contempt.
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Application by H. G. Stickney, William Owens, H. O. Caulkins, and J. W. Bennett, for the writ of prohibition, or other remedial process, to be issued to the circuit court of Montgomery, for the purpose of vacating and setting aside an order made by that court at its December term, 1865, (Hon. E. Bugbee presiding,) in the matter of an alleged contempt. The material facts of the case, as shown by the transcript, which was made an exhibit to the petition, are these: On the 10th day of July, 1865, an attachment was issued by J. H. Nettles, a justice of the peace in and for Montgomery county, at…
1Opinion of the CourtByed, J.
1. This is a motion or application for a writ of prohibition, or other original and remedial writ, against the circuit court of Montgomery county, to correct or vacate an order of that court, by which the applicants are sentenced to be imprisoned for a contempt of the authority of that court, in a matter pertaining to a suit pending therein, to which they are not parties, and by which order they are to be imprisoned, “until they turn over to the sheriff seventy-three bales of cotton, and pay the costs of the rule against them.”
The transcript shows that the proceeding in the court below was…
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