Temple v. Superior Court

Citations

• 70 Cal. 211
• 11 P. 699
• 1886 Cal. LEXIS 766

Syllabus

<p>Contempt—Re-entry on Land after Dispossession. — Under section 1210 of the Code of Civil Procedure, a defendant in an action to recover the possession of land is guilty of contempt if he re-enters thereon after being dispossessed under the judgment rendered therein, notwithstanding the re-entry was made more than five years after the date of the judgment.</p> <p>Id.—Proceeding to Punish por—Mandamus to Compel Hearing.—A writ of mandate lies to compel the Superior Court to hear and determine a proceeding for such a contempt where it refused to hear and has dismissed the proceeding for want of jurisdiction.</p>