Hutton

Hutton v. Superior Court

Caution
147 Cal. 156·1905 Cal. LEXIS 373·81 P. 409
Supreme Court of CaliforniaJune 17, 1905S.F. No. 4094.California1,740 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Angellotti, J.

Certiorari to review certain proceedings culminating in a judgment adjudging petitioner guilty of contempt of court, and requiring him to pay a fine of one hundred dollars.

The contempt charged was the alleged willful violation by petitioner of the terms of a certain decree given in an action brought by one Jean Pon v. George W. Wittman, chief of police of the city and county of San Francisco et al., to which petitioner was not a party, whereby said Wittman, chief of police, and James T. Donovan, a sergeant of police, and “all police officers of the said city and county, . . . and all other persons acting under their direction or control,” were perpetually restrained “from in any manner whatever entering into or upon and from in any manner whatever interfering with or infringing upon the quiet and peaceable possession and enjoyment by the said plaintiff Jean Pon of the premises No. 1129 Dupont Street, in the said city and county of San Francisco, and from in any manner not authorized by law interfering with or intimidating or preventing any person, or persons from patronizing the restaurant business or the cigar business of said plaintiff, Jean Pon, situate upon the said…

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