People ex rel. Lamby v. Dwinelle

Citations

• 29 Cal. 632

Syllabus

<p>Jurisdiction to punish por Contempt.—District Courts have jurisdiction to punish for contempt persons who re-enter upon a tract of land after having been dispossessed therefrom by a judgment and process of a Court of competent jurisdiction.</p> <p>Certiorari.—The Supreme Court, on certiorari, will only inquire whether the inferior Court exceeded its jurisdiction.</p> <p>Act op 1862 to punish Contempts.—The Act of 1862 for the punishment of con-tempts committed by re-entering on land after having been dispossessed by judgment and process of a Court, was designed not only to protect the Court from contempt of its authority, but to give a party injured an additional remedy in the action, for the restoration of what he was entitled to by the judgment.</p>