People Ex Rel. Morris v. . Randall
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of General Term of the Court of Common Pleas of the city and county of New York, modifying and affirming as modified an order of Special Term punishing Samuel H. Randall, an attorney, by a fine with, imprisonment until paid for an alleged contempt. The modification consisted in a reduction of the amount of the fine.
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Appeal from order of General Term of the Court of Common Pleas of the city and county of New York, modifying and affirming as modified an order of Special Term punishing Samuel H. Randall, an attorney, by a fine with, imprisonment until paid for an alleged contempt. The modification consisted in a reduction of the amount of the fine. The Special Term order imposed a fine of $7,187. The General Term reduced the amount to $3,076.50. The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion. The legal title to the fund was not in Hiler but in the trustee under the trust deed of December 7, 1872. (Dean v.…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
For disobeying and causing to be disobeyed, as it is alleged, an injunction order issued by the ¡New York Common Pleas, the defendant has been fined $3,076.50, and interest, from February 25, 1876, and ordered to stand committed to the common jail until payment of such fine. The .question before us is whether the facts authorized the imposition of such a punishment.
It matters not that the defendant’s conduct in all the proceedings investigated in the court below may not have been, altogether proper. It matters not that he may have been, unfaithful as an attorney, and abused the confidence of…
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