74 Iowa 152 | Iowa | 1888
A temporary wilt of injunction was issued and served upon plaintiff, enjoining and restraining her from keeping and using a certain building for the purpose of keeping or selling intoxicating liquors therein
The objection urged against the proceeding is that the statute under which it was had (sec. 3, ch. 66, Acts 21st Gen. Assem.) is in conflict with section one, article five, of the constitution of the state, which is as follows : “ The judicial department shall be vested in a supreme court, district court, and suc,h other courts, inferior to the supreme court, as the general assembly may from time to time establish.” Plaintiff’s position is that the order imposing a fine and imprisonment for contempt is a final judgment, which can be pronounced only upon a hearing by a court; and that the judge, who is but an officer of the court, cannot, under that provision, be empowered to hear and determine a matter in litigation, and pronounce final judgment thereon, except when acting under such circumstances that the judgment pronounced by him is the judgment of the court, and that that can only be when the jiidgment is pronounced when the court is in session. We think, however, that.the question is disposed of by our holding in State v. Myers, 44 Iowa, 580. We held, in that case, that, when the judge is authorized by
Dismissed.