Lockwood v. . Bartlett
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made November 7,1889, which modified, and affirmed as modified, a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon a verdict.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made November 7,1889, which modified, and affirmed as modified, a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon a verdict. The plaintiffs were the owners and consignees of a quantity of rags imported from Hiogo, Japan, in ship Vigilant, which arrived at the port of New York, May 30,1885, and imported from Leghorn, Italy, in bark Battaglia, which arrived at same port June 6, 1885. This action was brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiffs by…
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
The question of the liability of the defendants other than Smith, as presented at the trial, was by the parties treated as one of law only, so far as related to the claim for the money paid by the plaintiffs to obtain the possession of the goods, and to which amount the modification of the judgment by the General Term reduced the recovery. And if there was any evidence to support it to that extent, the direction of a verdict for that sum was without error, unless the exceptions having relation to the nature of the action, or the efficiency of the verdict, were well taken. (Winchell v. Hicks,…
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