Ryan v. Ryan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Matthew Ryan, judgment debtor in supplementary proceedings, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Erie Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 7th day of March, 1902, adjudging him guilty of a contempt of court and punishing him therefor.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The appellant, a judgment debtor, was examined before a referee in proceedings supplemental to execution, and was adjudged guilty of contempt of court in the language of the order of the Special Term “ on account of his failure and refusal to answer certain proper and legal questions put to him in his examination herein before Fred B. Skinner, referee, the said failure and refusal being his evasive and contumacious conduct in testifying upon such examination.” For the alleged misconduct he was directed to pay a fine of fifty dollars to ajiply on the judgment against him,…
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