Golson v. Holman

Citations

• 28 S.C. 53
• 4 S.E. 811
• 1888 S.C. LEXIS 13

Syllabus

<p>1. Where a Circuit Judge directs a defendant executor to pay over the balance found in his hands on an accounting, within sixty days after a personal service of a copy of this order upon him, and he does not appeal therefrom nor comply, and a succeeding judge directs defend-, ant to show cause why he should not be attached for contempt, and he fails to answer the rule — -he is guilty of a contempt of court.</p> <p>2. But the court has not power to direct the defendant, on such failure to show cause, to be imprisoned until the debt is paid, for that would be imprisonment for debt, which the constitution prohibits.</p>