In re Maury
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Krror to the District Court of the United States for the District of Montana; George M. I’ourquin, Judge. In the matter of proceedings to punish H, Lowndes Maury for contempt of court. The defendant was adjudged guilty of contempt and ordered to pay a fine of $500, and he firings error.
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In Krror to the District Court of the United States for the District of Montana; George M. I’ourquin, Judge. In the matter of proceedings to punish H, Lowndes Maury for contempt of court. The defendant was adjudged guilty of contempt and ordered to pay a fine of $500, and he firings error. The statements adjudged by the lower court to lie contemptuous were made by the plaintiff in error while acting as attorney for the plaintiffs in the trial of a case entitled "Myrtle Northam and Ifedley Northam, by Myrtle Northam, Ills next Friend, Plaintiffs; v. Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper &…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] It is alleged by the plaintiff in error that the District Court erred in rendering judgment against him for the reason that that court was without jurisdiction to summarily punish for contempt.
Section 725 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 583), from which the power of the federal courts in matters of contempt is derived, reads as follows; ■ ,
“The said courts shall have power to impose and administer all necessary oaths, and to punish, by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, contempts of their authority: Provided, that…
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