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CITY OF VERNON v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 21820.

38 Cal.2d 509 (1952)

241 P.2d 243

CITY OF VERNON et al., Petitioners, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 3, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carson B. Hubbard, City Attorney, Edward R. Young, John F. O'Hara and John W. Shenk, III, for Petitioners.

Fred N. Howser and Edmund G. Brown, Attorneys General, and Bayard Rhone, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondents.

SCHAUER, J.

The city of Vernon and the five members of its city council were found guilty of contempt for failing to obey a mandatory injunction. The petitioners here include the city and four members of the council. The trial court ordered that each petitioner pay a fine, that the individual petitioners be confined in the Los Angeles county jail for a period of five days, and that the individual petitioners be detained in jail until they, as members of the city council...

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