Mazzella v. Sarvis

The order appealed from adjudged the landlord-appellant in contempt for claimed disobedience of a prior order of the Municipal Court awarding possession to the tenant-respondent on December 14, 1946, of an apartment previously *382occupied by such tenant. To enable the landlord to make necessary repairs and alterations as required by the Department of Buildings and Housing, the tenant was obliged temporarily to vacate the apartment. The disobedience to the order is alleged to have happened on December 14, 1945. It was not until March 28, 1946, over three months thereafter, that the contempt…