Sutherland v. Swannanoa Corp.

This appeal was granted to the appellants from a decree holding them to be in contempt for disobeying a decree entered January 15, 1948, requiring them to surrender possession of the premises involved in the suit. They were fined $5 each. They claimed below, and assert here, that they were not in contempt because they were rightfully in possession of the property.

*152The suit in which the January 15 decree was entered grew out of a sale of lots in Dickenson county made by the appellee, Swannanoa Corporation. The appellants (together with Dotson, an associate, who has transferred his interest to…