Reese v. Reese
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Thomas J. Reese, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 27th day of October, 1899, committing him for contempt of court.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
The action was brought fór a separation oh the grounds of cruelty and abandonment', and the final decree directed the defendant to pay the sum. of seventy-five dollars per month for the maintenance ■of the plaintiff and of the children of the marriage and to give security in the form of a bond or undertaking in tlje sum of $1,000.
The defendant, although served with the final decree and a personal demand to comply with its terms, willfully refused to do so ; ■and the court before whom the facts were brought made the order adjudging the defendant in contempt, from which this appeal…
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