Usina Costa Pinto, S. A. v. Sanco Sav Co.

—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Edward J. Greenfield, J.), entered August 23, 1990, which granted plaintiff’s motion to punish The Chase Manhattan Bank and Cornelius J. Lyons, Esq. for civil and criminal contempt for having willfully disobeyed a prior order of the court, dated October 23, 1989, and fined them $1,000 each for criminal contempt and $250 each plus the amount of plaintiff’s costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, for civil contempt, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts and in the exercise of discretion, the finding of contempt is…