LePage v. LePage
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Lillian LePage, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 29 bh day of October, 1923, denying plaintiff’s motion to punish the defendant for violation of an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 15th day of December, 1922, in an action for separation.
1Opinion of the Court
Sears, J.:
Upon the return of an order to show cause the Special Term denied a motion to punish the defendant for contempt of court. An appeal has now been taken from the order denying the motion. The papers upon which the order to show cause was granted charged the defendant with the willful and contumacious disobedience of the terms of a previous order of the Supreme Court granted in this action. This proceeding is, therefore, seemingly one to punish defendant for an alleged criminal contempt. (Eastern C. S. Co. v. Bricklayers’ & M. P. I. U., Local No. 45, 200 App. Div. 714.)
The order which…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Ketchum v. . EdwardsNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
- Eastern Concrete Steel Co. v. Bricklayers' & Mason Plasterers' International Union, Local No. 45Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1922
- Adams v. AdamsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
- Archer v. HesseAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914