Deauville Associates, Inc. v. Eristavi-Tchitcherine

The fact that appellant, who sought to intervene in the Court below, had acquired its alleged interest in the subject matter of this litigation from parties who violated an injunction of the Court in transferring such interest to the petitioner, should not necessarily defeat or destroy whatever right, title, and interest in such property that the petitioner acquired from such contemnor. The Court in such circumstances has the unquestioned right and power to require such a contemnor to purge himself of contempt as a matter of punishment, but in so doing it should not deprive such purchaser of…