In re Hatfield
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the judgment debtor, Stanley M. Hatfield, from an ■order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special. Term' and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York ■on the 18th day of January, 1897, adjudging him in contempt and fining him the amount of the judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
On the 2d of January* 1897, upon an affidavit setting up the jurisdictional facts required by the Code, one of the justices of the Supreme Court granted an order requiring the defendant (the judg*431ment debtor) to appear before a referee, at a time and place therein named, and to make a discovery on oath concerning his property. That order was duly served- upon the judgment debtor, and he saw fit to refuse to appear. Upon a motion to commit him for contempt he again deliberately and intentionally refused to appear, submitting, however, by his counsel, the objection that the order…
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