Jos. Riedel Glass Works, Inc. v. Keegan

PETERS, District Judge.

This action is on a judgment rendered February 1, 1940, by the Supreme Court of New York against the defendant Keegan, a Maine citizen. It is based on a decree finding Keegan guilty of contempt of court and assessing damages, under Section 924 of the New York Civil Practice Act, for interposing a false claim to property in the possession of a sheriff who held it under a warrant of attachment in a suit in favor of the plaintiff, against Francis W. Kurtz & Co., Inc., a New York corporation, of which Keegan’s son was an officer. A fine of $7,500 was imposed for presenting…