Speeches And Addresses

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In Re SHORTRIDGE May It Please Your Honors : This proceeding was instituted to review a judgment punishing the petitioner for contempt, charged to have been committed in publishing the testimony given on the trial of a case, in disregard of an order forbidding such publication. The facts lie within a narrow compass, and may be briefly stated as follows: On the loth day of January of the present year, when the divorce case of Price vs. Price was called for trial, the Superior Court of the County of Santa Clara ordered that the hearing be had in private, and that no publication or other report of the testimony be made. The following morning, the petitioner, though aware of the order, published in a newspaper of which he was the editor a fair and truthful statement of the evidence given on the preceding day.