
    No. 816
    CARMOSINO v. STATE
    Ohio Appeals, 8th Dist., Cuyahoga County
    No. 5543.
    Cuyahoga County
    293. CONTEMPT — Contempt against a purchaser at sheriff’s] sale for default cannoti be supplemented by forfeiting a down payment.
    Attorneys — M. A. Piceiano, for Carmosino; E. C. Stanton,-for State; both of Cleveland.
   SULLIVAN, J.

Epitomized Opinion

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A fine of $50 and an order forfeiting a down payment of $295 for the purchase of land sold at sheriff’s sale was imlposed by the common pleas upon Carmosino. Reversing the court below, the Court of Appeals held:

1. Neither 11687 nor 12142 GC. affords a court authority to supplement the penalty and punishment for contempt by depriving a purchaser at public sale of his property without due process of law. Pierce v. Stewart, 61 OS. 424.  