31 Misc. 464 | N.Y. App. Term. | 1900
This is an appeal by the defendant, a judgment debtor, from an order of the General Term of the City Court, affirming an order of the Special Term, whereby he was adjudged guilty of contempt, and fined the amount of the judgment against him and $30 costs, amounting in all to $968.26.
The alleged contempt consisted in this: That, upon his examination in proceedings supplementary to execution, the defendant swore that he had never transferred to his brother any property of any kind, or an interest in any saloon, and had never executed to said brother any written instrument of any kind, or had any business dealings with him or transferred any property of any kind to him, whereas, in fact, he had some two weeks earlier transferred to his brother a saloon, by a bill of sale executed by him, and filed in the office of the register of the county of Hew York. The defendant attempted to show that, while his testimony was apparently
It follows that the order of the Special Term and General' Term of the City Court must be reversed, with costs.
Present: Truax, P. T., Soott and Ditgeo, JJ.
Order reversed with costs.