Schwerin v. . McKie
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Superior Court of the city and county of New York, affirming judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon verdict. (Reported below, 5 Robt., 404.) This action was brought against defendants as warehouse-men for the refusal to deliver goods deposited with them.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Superior Court of the city and county of New York, affirming judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon verdict. (Reported below, 5 Robt., 404.) This action was brought against defendants as warehouse-men for the refusal to deliver goods deposited with them. In April, 1864, the defendants were keepers of a warehouse in the city of New York, known as a private bonded ware' house, established under an act of congress “ to extend the warehousing system by establishing private warehouses ane for other purposes,” passed March 28th, 1854. Plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
Gray, C.
Nearly all the questions presented in their varied forms upon the motion for a nonsuit and for refusing to comply with the defendants’ request for instructions to the jury, as well as upon the exceptions taken, depend for solution upon the question whether by the act of congress passed March 28, 1854, vol. 10, U. S. Statutes at Large, 270, 271, abolishing the warehousing system by establishing private bonded warehouses, the plaintiffs’ property, which was placed in the warehouse kept by tjie defendants, and which remained there after the lien thereon for government duties had been…
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