In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Ball

Ketcham, S.—

Upon this motion, to punish the respondent as for a contempt alleged to consist of misconduct in not obeying the directions for payment contained in a decree, there arises .this question: . ■

Where a decree directs payments to separate persons not united in interest, may one of such persons solely upon his own motion obtain process by which the decretal debtor shall be fined in a sum representing the 'amount payable under the decree to persons- other than himself ?

It is a general rule, so far imbedded in the law that it is seldom displayed in argument, that nobody shall have any…