Tebbetts v. People ex rel. Sprague
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. Plaintiffs in error are respectively members of the board of aldermen and mayor of the city of Denver.
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Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. Plaintiffs in error are respectively members of the board of aldermen and mayor of the city of Denver. The defendant in error, Wellington G. Sprague, brought an action against them in their official capacity in the district court of Arapahoe county, the purpose of which was to restrain the aldermen from passing, and the mayor from approving, an ordinance then under consideration by the board granting to The Denver City Tramway Company certain rights, unless amended in particulars specified in the complaint. The statements in the complaint upon…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gabbert
delivered'the opinion of the court.
Counsel for defendants in error urge upon our attention at the outset, that this court is without jurisdiction to entertain these cases, for the reason that the contempts of which plaintiffs in error were ad-. judged guilty are civil, and not criminal, in their nature. This is an important question, because under the act regulating the jurisdiction of this court to review causes on appeal or error, it has no jurisdiction *466to review judgments in civil contempts in the absence of conditions or questions involved by virtue of which jurisdiction would attach as…
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