State ex rel. Jensen v. Bell

Citations

• 34 Wash. 185
• 75 P. 641
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 334

Syllabus

<p>Judgment — Evidence of — Journal Entry Controlled by Signed Order. Where tbe clerk’s brief entry on tbe minutes, entered on tbe day that the court orally announces its decision, is inconsistent with tbe formal order of the court signed and filed a few days later, tbe latter controls, and must be considered tbe evidence of tbe real and final act of tbe court on tbe subject.</p> <p>Same — Injunction — Construction — Prohibition Against Threatened Punishment for Contempt. Where a judge threatens to punish as for contempt the sale of beer in no way enjoined by the terms of the signed judgment of the court, a writ of prohibition will issue preventing such action, although the clerk’s journal entry of said judgment does enjoin such sale, and the judge claims that the journal entry correctly expressed the decision.</p>