State ex rel. Sander v. Jones

Citations

• 20 Wash. 576
• 56 P. 369
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 204

Syllabus

<p>CONTEMPT-APPEAL-CONSTRUCTION OF AFFIDAVIT—DISCRETION OF COURT-JUDICIAL NOTICE.</p> <p>An affidavit charging contempt will be construed on appeal with every intendment in its favor, where no objection by demurrer or otherwise was interposed to its sufficiency in the lower court, and the testimony introduced on the hearing is not brought up in the record.</p> <p>The discretion reposed in trial courts, in the matter of punishing for contempt the refusal to obey their judgments, even though they may be irregular or void in part, will not be interfered with by appellate courts, unless it plainly appears that such discretion has been abused.</p> <p>In a proceeding for contempt for violation of an injunction, the court will take judicial notice of its own order in granting the injunction.</p>