Case Name: In the matter of the Petition of Isaac S. Pavey for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1894-01
Citations: 52 Kan. 675
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the matter of the Petition of Isaac S. Pavey for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 52
Pages: 675–677

Head Matter:
In the matter of the Petition of Isaac S. Pavey for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Divoeoe — Attachment to Restrain Disposition of Property. Under the provision of ij> 644 of the civil code, the order of restraint therein provided for can only be granted by the district court or a judge thereof.
Original Proceeding im, Habeas Corpus.
Petition filed in this court on December 16, 1893. A copy thereof (omitting caption, subscription, and affidavit) is as follows:
“ Comes now Isaac S. Pavey and shows to the court, first, that he is restrained , of his liberty in the Douglas county jail, in the county of Douglas and state of Kansas, by L. W. Hindman, the sheriff of said county; second, that the cause or pretense of his restraint, according to the best of the knowledge and belief of this petitioner, is as follows:
“That on or about the —th day of September, A. D. 1893, one Ellen A. Pavey, the wife of this petitioner, filed her petition in the district court of Douglas county, Kansas, praying for a divorce from this petitioner as defendant, and prayed that this petitioner be restrained from interfering with the said Ellen A. Pavey or her property; that the probate judge of said county thereupon indorsed upon the said petition that the injunction as prayed for was allowed; that except the injunction granted by the probate judge of said county, as aforesaid, no injunction or restraining order has ever been granted in the said action, restraining or purporting to restrain this petitioner from interfering with said plaintiff or her property; that no bond for said injunction has ever been filed in the said action; that on the-day of-■-, 189 — , an affidavit was filed by the said Ellen A. Pavey, both of herself and her minor daughter, charging this petitioner with assaulting the said Ellen A. Pavey and the said minor daughter; that the said district court of Douglas county thereupon issued an order requiring this petitioner to appear upon the 14th day of December, A. D. 1893, and show cause why he should not be punished for contempt for violating said injunction; that the said court, on said 14th day of December in the year aforesaid, did find this petitioner in contempt of said court, for having, as it was alleged, committed the said acts of violence, as hereinbefore stated; that the illegality of the restraint imposed upon this petitioner consists of—
“1. Imprisonment of this petitioner by the sheriff of Douglas county for disobeying an injunction wholly void for the reason that the probate judge had no authority to grant the same, and no bond having been filed as required by law.
“ 2. The acts alleged to have been committed were not in violation of the said injunction.
“3. That the probate judge had not, nor had the district judge, any authority to restrain this petitioner, without bond, from doing anything else than disposing of the said Ellen A. Pavey’s property, or his own property.
“4. That the alleged acts of violence committed by this petitioner were putting the said Ellen A. Pavey out of the room in which she was at the time assaulting this petitioner, without cause or provocation, and that this petitioner used no more force than was necessary in putting said Ellen A. Pavey out of the room.”
On January 2, 1894, the sheriff aforesaid filed his answer to the petition. It was also stipulated and agreed by and between the parties to the action that the production of the body of the petitioner before the court in obedience to the writ should be waived, and that the case should be submitted to the court for decision without further pleadings and without argument or briefs.
Thacker & Poehler, for petitioner.
Spangler & Brownell, for respondent.

Opinion:
On Tuesday, the 2d day of January, 1894, before the supreme court of the state of Kansas, in session at the supreme court room, in the city of Topeka, the following proceeding was had, and remains of record at page 6 of Journal "V" of said court:
In re Isaac S. Pavey:
" This cause comes on to be heard on the pleadings herein filed; and thereupon, after due consideration by the court, it is ordered that the petition for the writ of habeas corpus be granted, and that the petitioner be discharged from the custody of the sheriff of Douglas county, the court holding that, under the provision of § 644 of the civil code, the 'order of restraint therein provided for can only be granted by the district court or a judge thereof, and that the order of J. Q. A. Norton, probate judge of Douglas county, of August 26, 1893, is wholly inoperative and void, no injunction bond having been ordered or filed. It is further ordered, that the respondent herein pay the costs of this proceeding, taxed at $-, and hereof let execution issue."