White
White v. Superior Court
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Fleet, J.
Application for certiorari to review an order of said court, Department Four thereof, adjudging petitioner guilty of contempt.
In the case of George E. White v. Frankie White, pending in said superior court, wherein petitioner is the *63 plaintiff, the superior court entered a decree divorcing the parties, and, =by said decree, after reserving the property rights of the parties for future consideration, it is provided:
Subsequent to the entry of said decree the superior court appointed a receiver in said action, and directed him to take possession and control of all the property of petitioner, and hold it subject to the direction and control of the court. The proceeding for contempt against petitioner was commenced since the making of the decree and order aforesaid, and the acts charged as constituting such contempt were in making two certain leases of his lands, in violation of the injunction contained in said decree, and in interfering with and obstructing the receiver in the efforts of the latter to take possession of said property. Petitioner, having been duly cited and tried, was found guilty of the acts charged, and it was adjudged that they constituted a *64 willful…