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Case No. 9,715.
    MONROE v. HARKNESS.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 157.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1803.
    Injunction — Violation—Attachment fob Contempt.
    
      
       [Reported by Hod William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   [This was a suit by Thomas Monroe, superintendent of the city, against Samuel Harkness.] Attachment for violating an- injunction. A rule granted yesterday, on complainant’s affidavit, to show cause why an attachment of contempt should not issue, for violating the injunction in proceeding towards completing a two-story wooden house. Upon further testimony in support of the rule it was made absolute, and an attachment was issued returnable immediately.

[Cited in Wilcox Silver-Plate Co. v. Schimmel, 59 Mich. 528, 26 N. W. 694.

[A similar attachment was issued against William Bradley. See Case No. 9,713.]