Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. v. DuPree Co.

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• holding that $1,450 \fine\ relator was ordered to pay as sanction for discovery abuse is a debt and the order to pay it may not be enforced by imprisonment
• commitment order imprisoned relator for failure to pay a debt and “[s]ince [relator] could not be imprisoned for at least one of the alleged acts of contempt, it follows, and we so hold, that the entire commitment order is tainted and void”

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