Miller v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County

is a proceeding in certiorari to .review an order of the superior court whereby the petitioners were adjudged guilty of contempt, and were ordered to return to a receiver certain property taken by them (so the court held) from his possession. -

The proceeding in the superior court against the petitioners was initiated by the filing of affidavits charging that petitioners by certain acts willfully interfered with Willard L. Goodwin in the discharge of his duties with respect to property in his charge and possession as receiver of said property in certain actions then pending in said superior court.

In three certain actions wherein the Hogan Drilling Company, a corporation, was defendant, Goodwin was, on the twenty-eighth day of May, 1923, appointed receiver of property of the defendant and was directed to take possession of certain real property and of all personal property located thereon. Goodwin qualified as such receiver on the twenty-ninth day of May.

Thereafter, on the fourth day of June, affidavits of Goodwin, of H. B. Pierce, and of L. D. Collings were filed charging the facts of the alleged contempt. Based upon those affidavits and the records and files of the said…