Forrest v. Price
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On motion to punish for contempt. The bill in this cause was filed in June, 1874, in aid of an unsatisfied judgment, recovered June 2d, 1857, by Samuel Forrest, deceased, against Rodman M. Price, of the county of Bergen, in the supreme court of this state, for $17,000 debt and $78.04 costs of suit.
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On motion to punish for contempt. The bill in this cause was filed in June, 1874, in aid of an unsatisfied judgment, recovered June 2d, 1857, by Samuel Forrest, deceased, against Rodman M. Price, of the county of Bergen, in the supreme court of this state, for $17,000 debt and $78.04 costs of suit. ISTo property out of which the judgment could be satisfied was then discovered, and the suit was suffered to lie dormant until the 8th of August, 1892, when the complainant, by her petition, represented that an alias writ of fieri facias upon the judgment had been returned unsatisfied on the 4th of…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The proceeding in which the orders contemned were made is designed to quickly discover and secure assets of a judgment debtor which cannot be reached by execution, and among them moneys due to the judgment debtor from another or others. When it is made to appear that there are such moneys, the statute expressly authorizes the court of chancery to restrain the debtor from transferring them and to require him to assign and deliver them to a receiver. Rev. p. 121.
It is not controverted that when the court took action in the present matter, by the orders in question, the defendant…
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