Lutz v. Darbyshire

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Contempt proceedings are commonly treated as criminal in nature even when they generate from civil cases.”
• if the court has jurisdiction and the legal authority to make an order, it must be obeyed even if the order is erroneous
• “In Iowa an appellee may invoke judicial power to enforce a decree while its correctness is being appealed, unless a supersedeas bond is filed”
• overruled on other grounds by Phillips v. Iowa Dist. Ct., 380 N.W.2d 706, 709 (Iowa 1986)
• “In the circumstances presented here [where notice of a contempt proceeding was provided only to the party’s attorney], we hold trial court had no power to hold plaintiff in contempt of court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).