Proper v. Proper

1 Reported in 246 N.W. 481. The relator was adjudged guilty of contempt. He appealed from the order so adjudging him. He also procured a writ of certiorari to review the order.

1. The rule is that if a contempt is a criminal contempt, one simply to impose a punishment, it can be reviewed only by certiorari; but if it is one to aid the enforcement of a civil remedy, as by compelling the one adjudged in contempt to deliver property in his possession, it is a civil contempt reviewable by appeal. 1 Dunnell, Minn. Dig. (2 ed. Supp.) §§ 1702-1708a.

The relator was not a party to the action hereafter…