Case ID: misc_146/html/0376-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Angelo Rossi, Plaintiff, v. Irving Shapiro and “ John Doe,” Defendants, Respondents; Samuel N. Kurtz, Appellant.
    Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
    January 17, 1933.
    
      
      Vernal J. Williams, for appellant Kurtz.
    
      Arnstein & Levine [Sidney S. Levine of counsel], for the respondents.
   Per Curiam.

The appellant was not guilty of a “ misbehavior in his office or trust ” or of a “ violation of duty therein,” within the meaning of subdivision 1 of section 753 of the Judiciary Law, when he stored the car in a public garage after having taken the precautions revealed by the record. (Depew v. Solomonowitz, 48 App. Div. 512, 514.) Nor can he be charged with a willful disobedience of the court’s mandate, since his inability to return the car was not the result of a contumacious act.

Order reversed, with ten dollars costs, and motion denied.

All concur; present, Lydon, Frankenthaler and Untermyer, JJ.