In Re Griffin
Supreme Court of North Carolina
MotioN, heard by Merrimon, Judge, at February Term, 1887, of the Superior Court of Wilson county. The appellant, C. F. Griffin, was on the 31st day of July, 1886, adjudged to he in contempt for disobeying an injunction issued in the case Oreen et al. v. Griffin et al, then pending in that Court, and ordered to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars. From this judgment he appealed to the Supreme Court, where the judgment was affirmed.
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MotioN, heard by Merrimon, Judge, at February Term, 1887, of the Superior Court of Wilson county. The appellant, C. F. Griffin, was on the 31st day of July, 1886, adjudged to he in contempt for disobeying an injunction issued in the case Oreen et al. v. Griffin et al, then pending in that Court, and ordered to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars. From this judgment he appealed to the Supreme Court, where the judgment was affirmed. See 95 N. C. Rep., 50. Subsequently, at February Term, 1887, of Wilson Superior Court, the appellant made an application to have the fine remitted. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
When this cause in a different form was before us a year since, the sole point presented, was whether an interlocutory order of restraint looking to a permanent injunction as the relief sought, from which an appeal had been taken to this Court, so effectually annulled and neutralized its operation as to leave the enjoined party as free to act as if no such order had been made. The Court ruled against this contention, and sustained the action of the Judge in proceeding to punish by imposing a fine for the contempt and affirmed the judgment.
The present appeal raised the question of the legal…
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