Brown v. Provident Loan Society

The parties were pledgor and pledgee. The action is one for conversion. The wrong alleged is that the defendant sold the pledge of the plaintiff without notice to her. The applicable law is this provision: “No pledge shall be sold unless written or printed notice of intention to sell with a statement of the article or articles to be sold has been first mailed by letter addressed to the pledgor at the address given at the time of pledging at least ten days prior to the date of sale.” (General Business Law, § 49 [Cons. Laws, ch. 20].)

In his charge the trial judge submitted the issue to the jury…