Hollingsworth v. Duane
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania
[This was an attachment for a contempt in connection with Case No. 6,615. [The plaintiff in this case had succeeded in securing a verdict against the defendant for a libel published in his paper (Case No. 6,615), in consequence of which the defendant published the article mentioned below,' reflecting upon the action of the court, and the present proceedings to attach him for contempt were instituted.] Lewis, on a former day, had produced in court No. 3171 of the General…
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[This was an attachment for a contempt in connection with Case No. 6,615. [The plaintiff in this case had succeeded in securing a verdict against the defendant for a libel published in his paper (Case No. 6,615), in consequence of which the defendant published the article mentioned below,' reflecting upon the action of the court, and the present proceedings to attach him for contempt were instituted.] Lewis, on a former day, had produced in court No. 3171 of the General Advertiser, commonly called “The Aurora,” published by the defendant Wm. Duane in the city of Philadelphia, which contained…
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT (TILGHMAN, Chief Judge, and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge; BASSETT, Circuit Judge, absent)
immediately gave an opinion. Each of the judges entered into the history of the trial, pointed out the gross falsities and unprincipled tendency of the publication. They stated, that no manner of doubt existed in their minds, either of the expediency or legality of punishing con-tempts of this nature by attachment; that in doing so, they neither assumed, nor designed to arrogate jurisdiction; they found themselves by their commission and by the laws of the land, in full possession of it, and bound by…
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