McAdams v. Smith

Respondent, Frank J. McAdams, Jr., seeks to reverse an order of the Circuit Court, entered by Judge Cornelius J. Harrington, adjudicating him guilty of contempt of court, and imposing a sentence of one day in the Cook County jail and a fine of $350. The judgment was entered after a hearing upon a rule to show cause and respondent’s answer thereto. The case out of which the contempt proceeding arose was a suit brought by C. Oran Mensik against Elbert S. Smith, Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Illinois, involving custody of funds of City Savings Association. The issues in that suit…