Switzer v. Norton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, James Norton, as sheriff of Queens-county, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the-plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens-on the 21st day of October, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Queens County-Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the; 19th day of October, 1895, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon…
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Appeal by the defendant, James Norton, as sheriff of Queens-county, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the-plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens-on the 21st day of October, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Queens County-Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the; 19th day of October, 1895, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, P. J.:
This action was brought to recover the value of two horses, one .T cart, one buggy and one set. of double harness, alleged to have been converted by the defendant.
The plaintiff’s proof tended to establish that the property had been in use at a livery stable at Lawrence Beach Hotel on Long Island in- the summer of 1892, and. was sent from there by the plaintiff to the stable of James Wood at Garden City, and that, while in Wood’s stable, was levied upon by the defendant under an execution issued upon a judgment rendered against one Rufus W. Leavitt, and that subsequent to the levy…
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