OWENS

v.

DANCY ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Sexton v. Eleanore M. Barry, 233 F.2d 220 (6th Cir. 1956)
  …rt. The Supreme Court declared that the records of the proceedings of a judicial tribunal import verity; “its judgments cannot be impugned except by direct process from superior authority.” In Owens v. Dancy, 10 Cir., 36 F. 2d 882, certiorari denied 281 U.S. 746, 50 S.Ct. 351, 74 L.Ed. 1158, a petitioner in a habeas corpus proceeding alleged bias and personal prejudice on the part of the judge. The Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the question of disqualification of a judge because of personal interest o…
• Schleper v. Ford Motor Co., 585 F.2d 1367 (8th Cir. 1978)
  …(in this case an answer to an interrogatory) containing contumacious matter is a direct contempt punishable summarily and without notice and hearing under paragraph (a) of Rule 42, F.R.Cr.P. Owens v. Dancy, (C.A. 10 1929) 36 F. 2d 882, cert. denied, 281 U.S. 746, 50 S.Ct. 351, 74 L.Ed. 1158 (1930); Spencer v. Dixon, (W.D.La.1968) 290 F.Supp. 531. The filing of a pleading containing contumacious matter is a contempt that the judge “saw” committed in the “actual presence of the court” as these words are used…