Opinion
December 10, 1925.
Appeal from the Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Third District.
Samuel M. Rivelson, for the appellant.
Saul Grover Wlodaver, for the respondent.
Plaintiff issued a requisition in replevin which, with the summons and complaint in the appropriate action were served upon defendant by a marshal. The marshal's return shows, and the testimony demonstrates, that the chattels mentioned in the requisition had been leased to a third party.
Under those circumstances defendant could not have been guilty of contempt of court for having "wilfully disobeyed the writ of replevin * * * in that he failed to turn over [to the marshal] * * * the chattels therein described and enumerated."
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.
All concur; present, BIJUR, LEVY and CHURCHILL, JJ.