Consolidated Rendering Co. v. Vermont
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF VERMONT. This writ of error brings up for review a, judgment of the Supreme • Court of the State of Vermont, affirming a judgment of the County Court of the County of Chittenden, adjudging the plaintiff in error, a corporation, hereinafter called the company, in contempt and fining it $3,000, for the collection of which it was ordered that execution should issue.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF VERMONT. This writ of error brings up for review a, judgment of the Supreme • Court of the State of Vermont, affirming a judgment of the County Court of the County of Chittenden, adjudging the plaintiff in error, a corporation, hereinafter called the company, in contempt and fining it $3,000, for the collection of which it was ordered that execution should issue. The company in due form was served in Vermont with a notice to produce certain described books and papers before the grand jury sitting at Burlington, in that State. The notice was given…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
We take the findings of fact by the state court as conclusive upon us. It therein appears that the company was duly served with a notice (which was in substance a substitute for a subpoena duces tecum) to produce books and papers required, and that they had not been destroyed, but were 'then under its control and custody; that the papers were material evidence upon the subject of inquiry before the grand jury, and that the company had (with some minor exceptions) omitted and refused to produce them before that body. The company' had a hearing before the court, and an opportunity was given it,…
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