In Re Contempt of Emil Swenson

Certiorari to review an order of the district court adjudging relator in contempt of court for refusing to answer certain questions while a witness in an action wherein Gladys V. Sundseth sought a, divorce from her husband, Arnold C. Sundseth, on the ground of adultery.

Relator is a clergyman in the Lutheran church and pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. In the divorce suit plaintiff sought to prove by relator that the defendant therein stated to relator that he, the defendant, had had adulterous relations' with a woman whom he named. Relator’s refusal to testify is based…