Minnesota Appellate Opinions

Published opinions of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, collated from public records. 157 opinions matched; showing 151–157.

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Docket	Court	Filed	Disposition	Case
No. 26,146.	Minn.	1927-12-09	Dismissed	Cohen v. Mirviss Manufacturing Co.
… prisonment in such case is for the purpose of coercion. The proceeding is for a civil contempt. If the proceeding before us was for a criminal contempt it could be reviewed only by certiorari. State v. Leftwich, 41 Minn. 42 , 42 N. W. 598 ; …
No. 24,135.	Minn.	1924-12-05	Remanded	Laff v. Laff
… ess of law.” From this order defendant appeals. Defendant was found guilty of a civil contempt and the order is reviewable on appeal. The order directly commits defendant, and is unlike the one held not final but conditional in Semrow v. Se …
No. 23,405	Minn.	1923-04-27	Granted	Union Pacific Railroad v. Rule
… Iowa only as for contempt. True, the jiroceeding"^ may be either a criminal or civil contempt. As to the former no claim can he made that the courts of another state may enforce the-' Iowa injunction decree directly; nor may it be done by …
No. 23,190	Minn.	1923-02-02	Denied	State ex rel. City of Minneapolis v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.
… y of the court, but to make effective a remedy given to a private party. Only a civil contempt is involved. As to this, the case is ruled by Campbell v. Motion Picture Machine Operators, 151 Minn. 238 , 186 N. W. 787 , and the cases cited i …
No. 22,199	Minn.	1922-01-27	Modified.	Campbell v. Motion Picture Machine Operators
… criminal contempts, and those prosecuted in proceedings of the second class as civil contempts. Both may be, and frequently are, combined in one proceeding, but in such cases the punitive part of the proceeding must conform to the law gove …
Nos. 19,078—(57)	Minn.	1915-01-08	Remanded with direction to proceed in accordance with the opinion.	Red River Potato Growers Ass'n v. Bernardy
… , 42 N. W. 598 ; State v. Willis, 61 Minn. 120 , 63 N. W. 169 . A proceeding in civil contempt is one instituted in a civil action for the private benefit of a party to the action, and where punishment is imposed it is remedial and is impos …
Nos. 9571—(341)	Minn.	1895-05-13	Writ quashed in part, and so much of the order as punished relator for a criminal contempt reversed.	State ex rel. Hurd v. Willis
… t and vindicate the authority of the court. The second'subdivision deals with a civil contempt; that is, one where the punishment is imposed for the sole benefit of the party upon whose motion the proceedings are instituted. No appeal lies …