Copelin v. Berlin Dye Works & Laundry Co.

This is an appeal from the order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The action was one for nine hundred dollars, the value of a pair of earrings alleged to have been received by the defendant and converted by it to its own use. Defendant is engaged in the business of cleaning and dyeing clothes. Mrs. Copelin, one of the plaintiffs, sent a suit of clothes belonging to her husband, the other plaintiff; to the establishment of the defendant, for the purpose of having the garments cleaned. The suit was delivered to the driver of one of defendant’s wagons. Next morning, Mrs. Copelin…