Barker v. S. A. Lewis Storage & Transfer Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the conversion of household effects left with the defendant on storage, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Tillman, J. ; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for |1,000, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
This action, to recover damagés for the alleged conversion of certain household goods left in storage with the defendant as a warehouseman, has once already been before this court, when a new trial was awarded. 78 Conn. 198, 61 Atl. 363. Upon the retrial, it having appeared, as the defendant claimed, that some of the property in controversy belonged to the plaintiff husband in his own right and some to the plaintiff wife in some right, and that the .plaintiffs were married between 1849 and 1877, the defendant presented a number of elaborately drawn requests to charge the jury upon a variety…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- The "Idaho."Supreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Barker v. Lewis Storage & Transfer Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1905
- Barber's Appeal From ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Ashmead v. KelloggSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1854
- Smith v. PhippsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
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- Wells v. Active Automobile Exchange, Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
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