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Hovey Vs. Elliott

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 24, 1897

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  1. Hovey Vs. Mcdonald US Supreme Court · Nov 05, 1883
  2. Windsor Vs. Mcveigh US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1876
  3. U.S. 409 (1897) U.S. Supreme Court Hovey v. Elliott
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  4. U.S. 409 (1897) Hovey v. Elliott
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  5. WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. The facts out of which this controversy grows are fully stated in Hovey v. McDonald
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  6. circumstances already stated. This suit culminated in a judgment in favor of Riggs, affirmed by this Court in Hovey v. McDonald
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  7. concerning the bonds, and were bound by the result of the judgment rendered as above stated in the suit of Hovey v. McDonald
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  8. of Columbia to punish for contempt was restricted by the provisions of section 725 of the Revised Statutes. Hovey v. Elliott
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  9. strip it of that attribute of justice upon which the exercise of judicial power necessarily depends. In McVeigh v. United
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  10. And, quoting with approval this language, in Windsor v. McVeigh
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  11. In Capel v. Childs
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  12. In Bonaker v. Evans
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  13. Rex v. Chancellor
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  14. Rex v. Benn
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  15. Harper v. Carr
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  16. Page 167 U. S. 417 7 T.R. 270, and Rex v. Gaskin
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  17. T.R. 209, and many other cases, concluding with that of Capel v. Childs
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  18. justice, courts possess the right to inflict the very wrongs which they were created to prevent. In Galpin v. Page
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  19. after the giving of prescribed public notice, to order the plaintiff's bill to be taken pro confesso, Davis v. Davis
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  20. seems that a defendant, though in contempt for violating an injunction, might file his answer in the cause. Robinson v. Lord
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  21. a favor to one in contempt, is clearly illustrated by the whole line of adjudicated cases. The cases of Phillips v. Bucks
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  22. Duke) 1 Vern. 228 (1683), Roper v. Roper
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  23. Vern. 91 (1688), and Maynard v. Pomfret
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  24. In Roper v. Roper
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  25. was clearly an application addressed to the discretion of the court, and therefore a matter of favor. In Maynard v. Pomfret
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  26. action taken by the court upon applications addressed to its discretion finds support not only in the case of Phillips v. Bucks
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  27. Bacon's Abridgement, Sequestration, C, the marginal reference being to a case entitled Sands v. Darrell
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  28. Vowles v. Young
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  29. of costs, and also moved to dismiss the bill for want of prosecution. Upon the authority of the passage in Vowles v. Young
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  30. aid of the court to dismiss the plaintiff's bill for failure to prosecute the suit. Page 167 U. S. 426 Heyn v. Heyn
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  31. involved purely a question of whether the Chancellor would accord to the defendant a favor or privilege. In Clark v. Dew
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  32. Court in Ireland bearing upon the question are contained in the first volume of Hogan's Reports. Thus, in Anon. v. Lord
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  33. insisted that as the defendant was in contempt, he should not be heard unless he purged his contempt, citing Vowles v. Young
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  34. been one of the steps in the process of punishment for contempt for not answering. Thus, in the case of Fitpatrick v. Hawkshaw
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  35. answer the bill and an order on the plaintiff to stay the entry of process in the meantime. In the case of Valle v. O'Reilly
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  36. The cases of Howard v. Newman
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  37. Moll. 221, and Odell v. Hart
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  38. Moll. 492, were decided by the Lord Chancellor in 1828. In Howard v. Newman
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  39. answer might be stricken from the files and the case be decided as though no answer had ever been filed. In Odell v. Hart
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  40. It was objected that the defendant, being de facto in contempt, ought to appear in vinculis, citing Vowles v. Young
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  41. court for an order except to set aside for irregularity the order adjudging him guilty of contempt. In Ricketts v. Mornington
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  42. eighth ordinance of Lord Bacon. On the authority of the Page 167 U. S. 429 ordinance and the case of Vowles v. Young
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  43. Barker v. Dawson
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  44. and Parry v. Perryman
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  45. King v. Bryant
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  46. pro confesso and directing an account, the account may be prosecuted ex parte. The case of Dominicetti v. Latti
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  47. In Wilson v. Bates
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  48. contempt could not take any proceedings in the cause, and cited the seventy-eighth ordinance of Lord Bacon and Vowles v. Young
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  49. for, and that the vice chancellor was right in permitting the plaintiff to proceed in the cause. In Bickford v. Skewes
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  50. defendant, though in contempt, was conceded to be entitled to participate in the trial of the cause. In Everett v. Prythergch
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