269 A.D. 725 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1945
Orders reversed on the law and facts, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and a new hearing granted as to each respondent. Memorandum: The record before us shows no rational basis for the orders denying the applications to punish the respondents for contempt in failing to comply with the order of the Supreme Court directing them to contribute to the support of their indigent parents. If they were unable to comply with the- order, they should have moved to vacate or modify it. (Geller v. Flamount Realty Corp., 260 N. Y. 346, 351.) Orders of the Supreme Court must be implicitly obeyed. Orderly jurisprudence “ forbids that litigants should be permitted, under plea of hardship or injustice, real or pretended, to nullify dr set at nought orders or decrees, however improvidently made, even if it may seem certain that the court acted in granting them