In re Proceedings to Punish Teitelbaum
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal .by Adolph Teitelbaum from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New- York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of March, 1903, adjudging the appellant guilty of a criminal contempt, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 27th day of March, 1903, denying the appellant’s motion to vacate the first-mentioned order.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
During the course of a trial in a civil suit in the Supreme Court, wherein one Antonio Cappola was the plaintiff and the appellant herein was defendant, the latter was adjudged guilty of a criminal contempt of court by Mr. Justice Andrews, presiding at the trial. It appears, from what purports to be the evidence taken by the justice, that the criminal contempt, of which the appellant was adjudged guilty, consisted in possessing himself of a paper which contained a contract between the plaintiff in the action and ' the- defendant therein, the same containing matter which was the…
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