Bird v. Everard
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from sixth district court. Action by Ernest H. Bird against James Everard to 'recover the value of an overcoat lost or stolen from plaintiff’s room while a guest at defendant’s bathing establishment. Judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Per curiam
Plaintiff sued to recover the value of an overcoat, which he claimed was purloined from the room assigned to him for the purpose of disrobing, while a.guest at defendant’s Russian and Turkish bath establishment in the city of New York. It seems to have been conceded on the trial that plaintiff left defendant’s establishment, several hours after he entered it, without an overcoat answering the description of the one he complained to have been taken from his room; and that he had it with him when he entered the room appears very clearly from his testimony, which is amply corroborated by that of…
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