Case ID: f_123/html/0632-01.html
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Author: {"author": "LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE CO. v. CHRISTIANSEN ENGINEERING CO.
    (Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
    March 21, 1903.)
    1. Contempt—Order Imposing Fine—Suspension.
    An order Imposing punishment on a defendant for contempt of court in violating an injunction granted by an interlocutory decree being reviewable by appeal, its operation will not be suspended until final hearing in the case.
    On Motion for Suspension of an Order Imposing a Fine for Contempt.
    Wm. A. Jenner, for the motion.
    Fred’k. H. Betts, opposed.
   LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.

There have been conflicting decisions by the Circuit Court of Appeals as to the review of an order punishing for contempt in disobedience of an injunction (Nassau Electric Co. v. Sprague Co., 95 Fed. 415, 37 C. C. A. 146; Gould v. Sessions, 67 Fed. 163, 14 C. C. A. 366); but the action of the court in the most recent case before it (October term, 1900) indicates that the rule laid down in the case of Gould v. Sessions is the one which will be followed. In this last case an interlocutory decree had been granted with an injunction, and the defendant had been fined for violating the injunction. Upon a writ of error the court reviewed the order on the merits and affirmed it. Cary Co. v. Acme Co., 108 Fed. 873, 48 C. C. A. 118.

Under these circumstances, the application to suspend the operation of the order imposing fine until final hearing is denied. The order, however, is modified by directing that the amount of fine which it directs shall be paid to the United States, shall be deposited with the clerk of the court, to be retained by him until final disposition of the case.