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Argument for respondent
Murphy, Coleman & Lewis, for respondent.

If the complaint in the case of Arkansas Brick & Manufacturing Company v. Pitcock was such that the court had the power to hear and determine the allegations therein, it had jurisdiction to issue the injunction. This court has expressly held that the lower court had jurisdiction in such cases. 70 Ark. 588. See also 1 Black on Judgments, § 215; 34 Ark. 110.

When the court upon a hearing of the complaint and in the exercise of its discretion decides that a temporary restraining order should go, it is the duty of the party against whom the injunction was issued to obey it. He has his remedy, if it is improvidently issued, to apply to the court itself to dissolve it or modify its terms, and he cannot on his own motion disobey the injunction and then purge himself of contempt by claiming that the court had no jurisdiction to issue the order. High on Inj., § 847; Bailey on Jurisdiction, § 3041, p. 336; 78 Ark. 266; 9 N.Y. 263; 232 Ill. 402; 114 N.W. 628; Bailey on Jur., §§ 2, 3, 4; 10 Am. & Eng. Enc. of L. 1105; 25 Mo. App. 639; 144 Fed. 284; 143 Fed. 375; 62 Fed. 826.

2. If a party is informed of the application for an injunction, it is not necessary that he have notice that the injunction has actually issued. Kirby's Dig., § 3984; High on Injunctions, §§ 852, 853; 144 Fed. 1011; Id. 279.

MC, C.J. Certiorari to the chancery court of Pulaski County to review and quash the judgment of that court adjudging petitioner, J. A. Pitcock, to be guilty of contempt in disobeying an injunction.

On January 14, 1909, the Arkansas Brick & Manufacturing Company, a corporation, instituted suit in the Pulaski Chancery Court against appellant J. A. Pitcock, superintendent of the Arkansas State Penitentiary, and Geo. W. Donaghey, Governor of the State, O. C. Ludwig, Secretary of State, Hal L. Norwood, Attorney General, Jno. R. Jobe, Auditor of State, and Guy B. Tucker, State Commissioner of Mines and Agriculture, composing the Board of Commissioners of the Arkansas State Penitentiary, to restrain them from violating an alleged contract which had been entered into between them and the plaintiff for furnishing to the latter of the labor of State convicts. It is alleged in the complaint that on February 3, 1899, a written