People ex rel. Empire Leasing Co. v. Mecca Realty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Empire Leasing Company, Inc., 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 March, 1916, denying relator’s motion to punish the defendants for contempt.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
This proceeding is brought to punish defendants for criminal contempt of court for the willful violation and disobedience of an injunction contained in an order to show cause, bearing date February 7, 1916, whereby the Mecca Realty Company and the 0. J. Gude Company, their agents, servants and employees, were enjoined and restrained from raising, altering or interfering with a certain sky sign upon the roof of premises known as the Mecca Building, situate at the northeast comer of Forty-eighth street and Broadway in the city of New York. Said injunction order was issued in an…
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