Passaic Falls Throwing Co. v. Villeneuve-Pohl Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Villeneuve-Pohl Corporation and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of January, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,277.88, rendered by direction of the court in an action for conversion.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The plaintiff, a corporation engaged in the business of throwing or spinning yarn from raw silk, had the possession of certain bales of raw silk. The defendant corporation, with the active aid of the defendants Pohl and Friedlander, unlawfully obtained said silk and converted it to its own use. The appeal is from a judgment entered upon a directed verdict against the defendant corporation, its president, Angelo De Villeneuve, and said Pohl and Friedlander, its vice-president and business manager.
The proof fully sustains the judgment against the defendant corporation. In Boyce v.…
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