DEMETREE v. STATE EX REL. MARSH


89 So.2d 498 (1956)

James DEMETREE and Georgia Bell Demetree, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida ex rel. John D. MARSH, County Solicitor of Dade County, Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division B.

September 12, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest E. Roberts and Caldwell, Parker, Foster, Wigginton & Miller, Miami, for appellants.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Jos. P. Manners, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


THORNAL, Justice.

Appellant James Demetree, who was a defendant below, seeks reversal of an order of the Chancellor adjudicating him to be in contempt of court and sentencing him to six months in jail for violation of an injunction order in a proceeding brought by appellee to restrain the conducting of a nuisance.

The questions to be disposed of on appeal are whether the contempt proceeding was for a civil or criminal contempt and the quantum of proof necessary...

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