Zirn v. Bradley

Order adjudging plaintiff in contempt ás having been committed in the course of an examination before trial before an official referee, and deferring punishment therefor, reversed on the law and the facts, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, without costs. The order is defective in that it does not contain a definite provision for immediate punishment, there being no authority in the court to defer, dependent upon future conduct, the determination of what punishment shall be inflicted. The incident upon which the finding of contempt was based was not of a…