Ex parte Cohen

Mr. Chief Justice Murray concurred.

The return to the writ shows that the petitioner is held in custody under a warrant of commitment, issued out of the Fourth District Court, in the case of Adams v. Haskell and Woods, directing that said Cohen and Edward Jones be imprisoned until they comply with a certain order of Court, requiring them to deliver to H. M. Naglee, a receiver appointed by said Court, all the books, papers, money and property in their hands belonging to Adams & Co.

And also a certain order of arrest, made by John S. Hager, Judge of *320 the Fourth District Court, in a certain suit pending in said Court, in "which H. M. Naglee is plaintiff and said Cohen is defendant.

In addition to the return of the officer, the petitioner produces as evidence on the hearing of his application, a record of the proceedings in the Court below on his application to be discharged from imprisonment. From this record, it appears that Cohen filed his affidavit in the Court below, setting out a compliance with said order as far as he was able. Certain interrogatories were propounded to him, under the order of the Court, from the answers to which, with the affidavits and statement of…