Auditors and committees appointed by any court, while engaged in the trial of the cases which they are appointed to hear, shall have the same power and authority over witnesses as the appointing court and may commit any such witness for contempt for not more than thirty days.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-429
Powers of auditors and committees over witnesses
(1949 Rev., S. 8172; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 48.) History: 1961 act deleted obsolete provision granting same power and authority over witnesses and to commit for contempt as justices…
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