Ex parte Cohn

Morrison, C. J.:

The petitioner complains that he is unlawfully imprisoned, confined, and restrained of his liberty, by one Thomas Desmond, Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco ; and the Sheriff, in his return to the writ of habeas corpus directed to him, shows that he holds the petitioner under commitment issued out of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, iñ a proceeding for contempt pending in that Court.

Tiie facts established on the hearing are, that Isador Cohn, as executor 'of the estate of one Solomon Cohn, filed his account in the late Probate Court of…