Sullivan v. United States Gas Fixture Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the United States Gas Fixture Company of the Oity of Mew York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 9th day of July, 1909, adjudging the said defendant guilty of contempt of court for willfully disobeying two orders ; one, an order in supplementary proceedings instituted by Meyer Shapiro as judgment creditor against the defendant Smith & Spector…
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Appeal by the defendant, the United States Gas Fixture Company of the Oity of Mew York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 9th day of July, 1909, adjudging the said defendant guilty of contempt of court for willfully disobeying two orders ; one, an order in supplementary proceedings instituted by Meyer Shapiro as judgment creditor against the defendant Smith & Spector Company, judgment debtor, made March 22, 1909, requiring the appellant to appear for examination in said procéeding and…
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
It appeared that the judgment debtor had, prior to the institution of the supplementary proceedings, assigned a bond and mortgage for $2,800, owned by it, to the appellant to secure the payment of an indebtedness of $870 with interest from February 1, 1909. Information to that effect was furnished to the judgment creditor by Mr. Seidman, the appellant’s attorney, on the 12th day of April, 1909, together with an offer to surrender the same upon the payment of said indebtedness. On the 23d of April, 1909, an order was made in the supplementary proceeding appointing Francis J.…
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