Hallinan

The parties hereto are the same as those in No. 5149 this day decided by this court (ante, p. 420). In the present proceeding the petitioner asks to review and have annulled an order of the respondent court adjudging him guilty of contempt. This order was made during the trial of the same action in which the order considered in No. 5149 was made, and during the same day, and only a short time after said last-named order was made. The proceedings out of which the order involved herein was made by the court, as shown by the commitment herein, were as follows:

There is little difference in principle between these two actions. The proceedings set forth above are practically a continuation of those considered in action No. 5149. Practically the same question had been asked the witness Mrs. Jewett in the proceedings involved herein as had been asked her in the prior proceeding. The objections interposed by petitioner to these two questions were in all essentials the same, and petitioner was attempting to make the same argument in support of his objection to the second question that he had made to the first, when he was informed by the court that it did not desire any further argument…