Hedges v. Superior Court of Yuba County
Hedges v. Superior Court of Yuba County
Opinion of the Court
Application for a writ prohibiting the respondent from proceeding in the matter of an alleged contempt committed by the petitioners. An injunction had been issued and served restraining a corporation, its officers, agents, superintendents, managers, servants, and employees. from the commission of certain acts. The affidavit on which the contempt proceedings were based did not in terms state that the petitioners herein were officers, agents, superintendents, managers, servants or employees of the corporation; but it did state that they had full knowledge of the issuance, service, and effect of the injunction, that they worked the mine of the corporation, and that they did the acts complained of in violation of the injunction
Writ denied.
Morrison, C. J., McKee, J., and McKinstry, J., concurred.
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- ALBERT HEDGES v. SUPERIOR COURT OF YUBA COUNTY
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- Contempt — Sueeiciencv op Affidavit — Violation op Injunction against Cobpobation—Pbohibition.—An affidavit in contempt proceedings for the violation of an injunction restraining a corporation, its officers, agents, superintendents, managers, servants, and employees, from the commission of certain acts, did not state that the persons complained of were officers or servants of the corporation; but it did state that they knew of the issuance, service, and effect of the injunction, and violated it in contempt of the authority of the court. Held, on an application for a writ prohibiting the respondent from proceeding in the matter, that the affidavit was sufficient.