Reich v. Cochran
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Elizabeth Reich, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Few York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Yew York on the 10th day of December, 1904, granting the defendants’ motion to set aside the verdict of a jury theretofore rendered in favor of the plaintiff and granting a new trial of the action.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J. :
Plaintiff’s assignor, Lorenz Reich, was a tenant of the Cambridge Hotel, owned by defendants’ testator. Summary proceedings had *142been instituted by the owner and they resulted in a writ of dispossession, which, was executed March 17, 1893.
At the time the tenant was thus dispossessed he had on hand in .the storeroom of the hotel a quantity of hotel supplies, including wines and liquors. It is claimed that the defendants’ testator, on the day of the dispossession, appropriated to his owm use and couvelted this personal property, of the conceded- 'value, with interest, of $8,216.…
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