Dreher v. Superior Court

This proceeding in certiorari has been inaugurated to review certain orders of the Superior Court of Riverside County adjudging the petitioner guilty of contempt and imposing upon him, as a penalty therefor, a fine of $300, in default of payment of which it was ordered that he be imprisoned in the county jail of Riverside County at the rate of one day’s confinement for each $2 of said fine.

The record herein shows that on February 18, 1930, a certain action was pending in the Superior Court of Riverside County in which petitioner was sued individually and as an officer of various corporations.…