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USINA COSTA PINTO v. SANCO SAV CO. LTD.

174 A.D.2d 487 (1991)

Usina Costa Pinto, S. A., Respondent, v. Sanco Sav Company Limited et al., Defendants, and Chase Manhattan Bank et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 18, 1991

It is well established that contempt is a drastic remedy which should not be granted absent a clear right to such relief. Whether to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt as is apparently the case with criminal contempt or "`with reasonable certainty'" in the case of civil contempt (N. A. Dev. Co. v Jones, 99 A.D.2d 238, 242), where, as here, there are factual disputes regarding the alleged...

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