State v. Livingston

Attachment for Contempt.—The defendant was attached for contempt for not performing the decree of the Chancellor in the payment of the sum of $541.40, being the costs awarded against him in the case of Hall vs. Livingston and Stutzer*

The defendant had been brought into Court by the Sheriff upon his arrest under the attachment in June A. D. 1871, and discharged upon his undertaking to appear on Sept. 28, 1871, on which day he appeared.

*265The examination upon interrogatories was dispensed with by agreement of counsel, and the defendant was sworn and examined orally by Comegys for the State.

His…