U.S. Trust v. American Travel, Inc.

This is an action for contempt in which plaintiff, U.S. Trust, seeks to hold the “reach and apply” defendant, Town of Wilmington (“the Town”), in contempt of Court for failing to honor the terms of an injunction this Court issued to prohibit the Town from paying certain sums of money it owed to one of the individual defendants. In response, the Town has fired a broadside of defenses that will be discussed, seria-tim, in a few moments.

The case was submitted to the Court for trial on a stipulation of agreed facts as “case stated.” See generally Frati v. Jannini, 226 Mass. 430, 431 (1917). Based…