In re the Arbitration between Pastificio DiPonte San Giovanni S.p.A. & Andre & Cie, S. A.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County, entered April 11, 1979, awarding petitioner $13,330.46, as damages for contempt, is unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, with costs to respondent-appellant Andre & Cie, S. A., and the motion of said petitioner to punish said respondent-appellant for contempt is denied. "As punishment for contempt involves, or may involve, not only loss of property but liberty, *562it is a reasonable requirement that the mandate alleged to be violated should be clearly expressed, and when applied to the act complained of it should appear,…
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