Pierson v. Fries
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Louis K. Fries, from an order' of the City Court of Mount Vernon, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 7th day of February, 1896, adjudging the defendant guilty of a contempt of court for a failure to obey an order in supplementary proceedings, which commanded him to appear before a referee to be examined concerning his property.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The present appeal challenges the constitutionality of the act by which the City Court of Mount Vernon acquired jurisdiction to make the order appealed from. This court was created by act of the Legislature (Chap. 182, Laws of 1892) as a local and inferior *419court in virtue of the power conferred by section 19, article 6 of the Constitution in force when the act was passed, which authorized the Legislature to establish inferior local courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction. The act provides that the court shall have no jurisdiction of an action Unless one of the parties thereto…
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