Fireman v. Smith

The municipal court of Chicago, in a supplementary proceeding under section 64 of the Municipal Court act, ordered Oliver F. Smith to assign and transfer to the bailiff of that court certain choses in action to be sold by the bailiff at public sale and the proceeds applied toward the satisfaction of a judgment theretofore recovered by William Hughes against Smith. The order was not obeyed, Smith was adjudged in contempt of court, and sentenced to the county jail. By this writ of error he seeks a reversal of the later order.

The facts in the case are set forth in Fireman v. Smith, (ante, p.…