Yott v. People ex rel. Goldschmidt

This is an appeal from an order or judgment, rendered in the circuit court of Cook county, wherein appellant, Francis Yott, was fined in the sum of $25, and ordered to be imprisoned in the common jail of Cook county for and during the period of • twenty days, for contempt of court, for a failure to obey a certain order made by the court in an action of replevin, wherein Adolph Goldschmidt was plaintiff and Francis Yott defendant.

The writ of replevin was issued on the 2d day of May, 1878, returnable on the 3d Monday of May of the same year, for the recovery of a certain dapple-gray horse. The…