Opinion
March 4, 1938.
Appeal from the City Court of the City of New York, County of Bronx.
Aaron Edward Norwack, for the judgment creditor.
Philip Gelfand, for the judgment debtor.
By the terms of his judgment the judgment creditor was entitled to the issuance of a body execution against the debtor.
Section 775 Jud. of the Judiciary Law, relied upon by the debtor, does not authorize a stay of body execution; it provides for cases wherein an offender may be released from imprisonment.
Orders reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, motion to relieve debtor of failure to pay judgment and staying the issuance of body execution denied; and matter remitted to the justice below for appropriate action on creditor's application in accordance with this opinion.
LYDON and FRANKENTHALER, JJ., concur; HAMMER, J., concurs in result with memorandum.
I concur in the result only as in my opinion in an appropriate case upon proper proof the court may stay either the issuance of the execution or the arrest thereunder.