Corey v. Hardison

The appeal raises this solitary question: Did Judge Friz-zelle err in adjudging the defendants not subject to punishment as for contempt %

The plaintiffs set the proceeding as for contempt in motion on the theory that the refusal of the defendants to surrender the public offices, records, and funds of the Town of Jamesville to Lilley, Blount, Coltrain, Davenport, Gurganus, and Hamilton runs counter to- this portion of the statute codified as G.S. 5-8 (1) : “Every court of record has power to punish as for contempt . . . any clerk, sheriff, register, solicitor, attorney, counselor, coroner,…