Matter of Backus
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 24, 1904, which reversed an order of Special Term granting a motion to punish the respondent herein for a contempt of court.
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Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 24, 1904, which reversed an order of Special Term granting a motion to punish the respondent herein for a contempt of court. The following question was certified : “ Has the Supreme Court, at a Special Term held in the county of Hew York, jurisdiction to punish a judgment debtor as for a contempt in refusing to answer questions and to obey the direction of a referee appointed in proceedings supplementary to execution instituted before a county judge of…
1Opinion of the Court
Order affirmed, with costs, on prevailing opinion below, and question certified answered in the negative.
Concur: Cullen, Cli. J., O’Brien, Martin, Vann and Werner, JJ. Absent: Gray and Haight, JJ.
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