People Ex Rel. Woolf v. . Jacobs
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Oourt in the first judicial department to review an order of a justice of said court discharging, upon writ of habeas corpus, defendant from imprisonment under a warrant of commitment issued out of the Superior Oourt of the city of Mew York for an alleged contempt in violating an injunction order.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Oourt in the first judicial department to review an order of a justice of said court discharging, upon writ of habeas corpus, defendant from imprisonment under a warrant of commitment issued out of the Superior Oourt of the city of Mew York for an alleged contempt in violating an injunction order. (Reported below, 5 Hun, 428.) It appeared by the return to the writ that defendant was adjudged in contempt; that the court imposed a fine and directed defendant to be imprisoned thirty days, and until the fine should be paid. In the sum imposed as a fine was…
1Opinion of the Court
Rapallo, J..The appeEant was imprisoned under a commitment for a contempt of court, in violating an order of injunction. The warrant directed him to be detained for thirty days, and also untfl he should pay a fine imposed upon him by the court. The appeEant sued out a writ of habeas corpus and claimed to be discharged on the sole ground that in the amount imposed in the fine there was included the sum of $150, for counsel fees in the proceedings to punish the appeEant for the contempt.
Proceedings for contempt are regulated by title 13 of chapter 8 of part 3 of the Revised Statutes, which…
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