Lake

This court issued its writ to review a judgment of the superior court of the county of Kern declaring petitioners to be in contempt. The contempt charged and found rests upon the violation by petitioners of another judgment given by the same superior court, enjoining them from the assertion of any rights or claims to certain real estate situated in the county of Kern. In the last mentioned ease an appeal from the order denying a motion for a new trial was affirmed by this court, whose decision will be found in Lake v. Bonynge, 161 Cal. 121 , [ 118 Pac. 535 ], In the opinion handed down in that case will also be found a statement of many of the facts bearing upon this consideration. It may be convenient, however, briefly to summarize them.

In 1889 S. Davis procured a certificate of purchase for six hundred and forty acres of land belonging to the state of California. In 1892 in the superior court of Kern County was commenced by the people of the state of California an action against S. Davis to foreclose his interest in the land and annul his certificate of purchase on account of his failure to pay the interest on the unpaid balance of the purchase price. On December 27, 1892, a…