IN RE HIGGINS

Docket No. 8074.

199 Cal.App.2d 1 (1962)

18 Cal. Rptr. 316

In re JOSEPH HIGGINS on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

January 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Carr for Petitioner.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, and Robert C. Lynch, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent Sheriff of Los Angeles County.

Trippet, Yoakum & Ballantyne for Real Party in Interest Marblehead Land Company.


FRAMPTON, J. pro tem.*

Petitioner seeks his release on habeas corpus on the ground that respondent court acted in excess of its jurisdiction in finding him guilty of contempt of court and imposing a judgment of fine and imprisonment based thereon.

Petitioner was a defendant in a civil action brought in respondent court, in which Marblehead Land Company (the real party in interest) was plaintiff. The action was brought to quiet...

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