PEREIRA v. PEREIRA


35 N.Y.2d 301 (1974)

Inez Pereira, Respondent, v. Angel Pereira, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth E. Warner for appellant.

Alfred F. Ritter and Harry F. X. Hammer for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, RABIN and STEVENS concur with Judge WITMER.


WITMER, J.

Involved in this appeal are questions of (1) the admissibility of evidence of certain polygraph tests, (2) basic procedures required in a civil contempt proceeding and (3) the sufficiency of the evidence with respect to finding defendant guilty of civil contempt.

Plaintiff instituted this proceeding in April, 1973 to enforce the terms of the judgment of divorce granted to her on February 15...

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