Baker v. . Hoag
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the third district, where a judgment upon a verdict in favor of the defendant had been affirmed. (Reported below, on former trials, 3 Barb. 203, and 7 Id. 113.) This was an action of replevin for eighteen bales of wool, the property of the defendant, which had been taken by the plaintiff from the canal-boat William Henry, that had been sunk in the Hudson River, near. Coxsackie, a place where the tide ebbs and flows.
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Appeal from the general term of the Supreme Court, in the third district, where a judgment upon a verdict in favor of the defendant had been affirmed. (Reported below, on former trials, 3 Barb. 203, and 7 Id. 113.) This was an action of replevin for eighteen bales of wool, the property of the defendant, which had been taken by the plaintiff from the canal-boat William Henry, that had been sunk in the Hudson River, near. Coxsackie, a place where the tide ebbs and flows. On the 16th November 1846, the canal-boat William Henry, having on board the wool in question, whilst being towed down the…
1Opinion of the Court
*Jewett, J.
If the had a lien on the ^ wool, at the time the defendant took it from his *- possession, it was a sufficient special property to entitle nim to maintain this action. (Ingersoll v. Van Bokkelin, 7 Cow. 670; Wheeler v. McFarland, 10 Wend. 318; Rogers v. Arnold, 12 Id. 30.)
At the trial, the plaintiff insisted that he, at that time, had a lien on the wool in question — either, first, for salvage, by the common law; second, for salvage by the provisions of'our statute concerning wrecks; or, third, by agreement, or in consequence of the offer of a reward by the defendant for finding…
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