Barker v. Lewis Storage & Transfer Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the conversion of household goods left with the defendant on storage, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Hubbard, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $1,036, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The plaintiffs delivered to the defendant as a warehouseman for storage certain household furniture and personal effects. This action was brought to recover damages for their conversion. Judgment having heen rendered for the plaintiffs upon the verdict of a jury, the defendant appealed, assigning various reasons of appeal which, after elimination and consolidation, are in its brief reduced to four claims of error. The most comprehensive and important of these involves a consideration of the rule for the assessment of damages.
The property in question included, as was claimed, certain family…
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