Gumpel v. Gurvitch
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by judgment-creditors from order of the City Court of the city of New York, discharging the judgment-debtor from the custody of the sheriff of the county of New York.
1Opinion of the CourtGuy, J.
By an order of the City Court dated August 27, 1917, the judgment-debtor in this supplementary proceeding was adjudged guilty of contempt of court “in having wilfully"violated and disobeyed the order of Hon. Samuel Strasbourger, justice of the City Court of the city of New York, by refusing to sign or swear to his examination in the within proceeding concerning his property,” said order further adjudicating “that the said failure to sign and swear to his examination in the within proceeding was calculated to and did impair, hinder, impede and delay the rights *538and remedies of the plaintiffs,…
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- Guerrier v. ColemanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
- Schwartz v. SillAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1914