Holcomb v. Johnston

Felton, Chief Judge.

Where a citation seeking a judgment for criminal contempt is filed as a branch of an equity case in which the judgment enjoined the defendant from committing *117the acts which form the basis for the contempt citation, the contempt case comes within the jurisdiction of the court having jurisdiction of the equity case. This situation exists, where, as in the instant case, the petition for citation for contempt is instituted by the plaintiffs in the equity case and is entitled in the equity case. The same jurisdictional consequence obtains in a case arising out of a petition by…