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Pitcock v. State.
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Pitcock v. State.

Opinion delivered July 12, 1909.

  1. CONTEMPT—EVASION OF SERVICE OF WRIT.—Where a party to a suit in equity, after receiving actual notice of the issuance of a writ of injunction therein, evaded the service of the writ and violated the injunction, he will be held to have been in contempt of court if the court possessed jurisdiction of the cause. (Page 533.)
  2. SAME—DISOBEDIENCE OF WRIT ERRONEOUSLY ISSUED.—If a court had jurisdiction of the parties and subject-matter of the cause of action in which an injunction was issued, the fact that the injunction was erroneously and improvidently issued does not excuse disobedience upon the part of those who were bound by its terms. (Page 533.)
  3. JUDGMENTS—NECESSITY OF JURISDICTION.—Where the pleadings in a case show on their face that the court is wholly without jurisdiction of