McMullin v. City and County of Denver

We are confronted with a case of alleged constructive civil contempt and the question of the application of our present rule of civil procedure thereto.

As we find subdivision (a) of Rule 107 of our rules of civil procedure, as to what constitutes civil contempt, the proponents apparently decided to combine two sections of the old code in a briefer form, and as stated by a member of that committee in address No. 16, “There is no material change in substance.”

Paragraph (3) of section 356 of the old code was, “Disobedience to any lawful writ, order, rule or process issued by the court, or judge…