Legal Opinion

De Wolf v. Williams

New York Court of Appeals

Decided April 27, 1877PublishedCited by 25 opinions

This was an action against defendant, as sheriff of the county of Kings, for the alleged conversion of a quantity of household furniture, which was levied upon by him by virtue of an attachment against plaintiff’s husband. Defendant claimed that the title to the property was in the husband.

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This was an action against defendant, as sheriff of the county of Kings, for the alleged conversion of a quantity of household furniture, which was levied upon by him by virtue of an attachment against plaintiff’s husband. Defendant claimed that the title to the property was in the husband. It appeared that, prior to the purchase of the furniture in question, a quantity of furniture, to which plaintiff claimed and gave evidence tending to show that she had title, was sold by her husband to one Bogert; that her husband received the purchase money, and that a part of the purchase money of the…

1Opinion of the Court

Earl, J.,

reads for affirmance.

All concur, except Miller, J., not.voting; Andrews, J., absent.

Judgment affirmed. ■

2Cited by25 opinions

  1. Jantzen v. Emanuel German Baptist ChurchSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1910
  2. Mathews v. LivingstonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
  3. O'Farrell v. De O'FarrellCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1909
  4. First National Bank v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1914
  5. Nicolay v. . UngerNew York Court of Appeals · 1880

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