Ellis v. Feeney & Sheehan Building Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Feeney & Sheehan Building Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of June, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury for $7,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 15th day of August, 1918, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
This action is to recover damages for the wrongful conversion of personal property. The facts material to this appeal are as follows:
*483F. T. Nesbit & Company, Inc., prior to March 24, 1914, was engaged as contractor in constructing a power house for the United Electric Light and Power Company at Two Hundred and First street and the Harlem river, and had in use on the contract building material and machinery. On March 24, 1914, an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed against F. T. Nesbit & Co., and Alfred L. Rose, Jr., was on the same day appointed receiver by the United States…
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