Hackett v. Nelson Express & Storage Co.

This action against a warehouseman for the wrongful conversion of stored, household goods and furnishings presents one of those troublesome problems where the letter of the ware-housemen’s lien law (Gen. Business Law, § 118), under which the goods and furnishings were sold, admittedly was not strictly complied with, but the non-compliance did not produce the damage here complained of. Bather, it was due to the plaintiff’s own carelessness and neglect, and in no wise to the defendant’s wrongdoing that plaintiff did not have actual knowledge — he had legal notice — of the sale which it is…