Metcalf v. Eastman

An opinion discussing the particular facts of this case has been filed, but publication of that opinion is deemed unnecessary except upon two propositions of law. Hence, this separate opinion dealing alone with those questions of law is likewise filed, and. for publication.

This was only a contempt case, insofar as there was an appeal from the decree of the Chancellor adjudging a lawyer in the case guilty of contempt of court in that he was guilty of an “abuse of, or unlawful interference with,, the process or proceedings of the court”; Code, Section 10119 (4). There was no appeal from the…