National Surety Corp. v. Silver

I would affirm. The judgment here amounts merely to a direction for a recovery of converted funds. As a money judgment in conversion, it is not enforcible by contempt proceedings.

The general power of the Supreme Court to punish as a contempt the disobedience to its judgments in actions, whether in law or in equity, is limited by statute. Even though a judgment expressly directs the payment by the defendant of a certain sum of money, the judgment creditor’s remedy to enforce the judgment is to proceed by execution and not by contempt proceedings. This.was the general rule under the Civil…