Ex parte Sweeney

At Chambers,

Hawley, C. J.:

Petitioner, upon a regular hearing had, was adjudged guilty of contempt of court, for disobedience to the decree and injunction in the case of Phillips v. Welch, 11 Nev. 187, in appropriating more water than he was entitled to by said decree. For this contempt he was fined five hundred dollars, and the commitment under which he is held declares that “if said fine be not paid forthwith,” the petitioner is to be “imprisoned in the county jail of Ormsby county * * * for the space of two hundred and fifty days; that is to say, at the rate of one day for each and every…