People ex rel. Brewer v. Kidd

This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court for the county of Midland, in chancery, in proceedings for contempt, imposing a fine upon the respondent, Kidd, for having violated an injunction issued by that court, in a cause wherein Brewer, the relator, was complainant, and said James H. Kidd and one Osmond S. Tower were defendants.

The defendant, Kidd, was the register of the United States land office at Ionia, Michigan, and Tower was the receiver. The bill was filed solely to restrain them, by injunction, from making a public sale of certain lands, as public lands of the United…