Irene Smith Cliett v. Mamie S. Hammonds

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This case involving an attack on a judgment finding Mrs. Cliett guilty of contempt for disobedience of the orders of the District Court grows out of the controversy which has raged between the parties in this Court, and the one below, for over a quarter of a century. 1 It has now run the gamut of every Judge of the Southern District (save the most recent who assumed office in December 1961), plus at least two others from outside the District sitting by designation.

After prolonged litigation which definitely put ownership of the one-half interest in the lands in…