Burstin Investors, Inc. v. K.N. Investors Ltd.

—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for fraud, the defendant Nachum Kalka appeals from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Beisner, J.), dated April 29, 1997, which granted the plaintiff’s motion to hold him in contempt of court, and (2) an order of the same court dated April 29, 1997, as amended July 11, 1997, which directed that he be committed to the Dutchess County Jail for a term of six months. Justice Feuerstein has been substituted for former Justice Pizzuto (see, 22 NYCRR 670.1 [c]).

Ordered that the appeal from the order dated April 29, 1997, as amended July…