Case Name: Nelson Urton v. John Downey
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1882-03-23
Citations: 11 Ky. Op. 564
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nelson Urton v. John Downey.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Opinions, containing the unreported opinions of the Court of Appeals
Volume: 11
Pages: 564–565

Head Matter:
Nelson Urton v. John Downey.
[Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 3-692.]
Contempt of Court.
The chancellor does not commit reversible error by refusing to punish one for a contempt committed by an alleged obstruction of a passway which the chancellor had prior thereto ordered opened. It was for the chancellor to say whether the erection of the gate across the passway amounted to an obstruction.
APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. .
March 23, 1882.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Judge Pryor:
This is evidently an appeal from an order of the chancellor refusing to punish the appellee for a contempt committed by an alleged obstruction of a passway which the chancellor had, prior thereto, ordered opened. We do not mean to say that an appeal would lie, but suggest that, as it was with the chancellor to say whether the erection of .the gate amounted to an obstruction, it might well be argued that no disregard of the former judgment has- been made to appear. Could not the chancellor, upon the former hearing, have permitted the erection of a gate, and if of great convenience to the one party and of but little inconvenience to the other, would or ought the chancellor to punish for contempt?
Harrison & McGrain, for appellant,
T. B. Fairleigh, for appellee.
Appeal dismissed.