State Ex Rel. Lloyd v. District Court

Mr. Chief Justice Sands:

I dissent. By this proceeding it is sought to prohibit the district court of Deer Lodge county from trying the relators for an alleged contempt of court. The meat of the controversy is the disobedience of an order made by that court in a case in which it had appointed a receiver to take charge of real and personal property in a county (Beaverhead) outside the district over which the court has jurisdiction.

The alleged contempt was not committed in the presence of the court. The affidavit reciting the facts upon which the contempt is based alleges a re-entry by these…