Case Name: MONROE v. HARKNESS
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1803-12
Citations: 17 F. Cas. 605
Docket Number: 
Parties: MONROE v. HARKNESS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 17
Pages: 605–605

Head Matter:
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.]

Opinion:
[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.]