Duboff v. Haslan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, G. Hinman Barrett, individually and as property clerk, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of July, 1920, granting plaintiffs motion for judgment on the pleadings consisting of the complaint and a demurrer thereto for insufficiency and denying his counter-motion for judgment on the pleadings.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action on an assigned claim of the plaintiff’s husband to recover certain specified items of jewelry, alleged to have been owned by him and to have been seized and taken from his place of business as a dealer in jewelry at 156 Chrystie street in the borough of Manhattan, New York, by members of the police force of the city of New York as such officials on the 6th day of April, 1916, and on or about said date delivered by them into the possession, care and custody of the defendants Haslan as assistant property clerk and Barrett as property clerk of the police…
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