State Grand Lodge v. Morrison

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

That an appeal will lie in contempt proceedings in certain civil actions has been definitely decided by this court in an opinion by Mr. Justice Simpson in Scranton v. Peoples Coal Co., 274 Pa. 63. The denial of this relief, necessary to the enforcement of a decree, is tantamount to a denial of the decree. This case presents one of the few instances where litigants have been permitted to be guilty of a contemptuous refusal to obey a final decree of a court, — made after full hearing in the exercise of complete jurisdiction over the subject-matter and persons…