Legal Opinion

New York and Brooklyn Ferry Company v. . Moore

New York Court of Appeals

Decided April 13, 1886PublishedCited by 30 opinions

These were actions to recover moneys alleged to have been received by defendant, John H. Moore, for tolls while in the employ of plaintiff as ferry master, and to have been converted by him and invested in real estate, or deposited in his own name and in the name of his mother,, in various savings banks, who were made defendants. The actions were consolidated and tried together.

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These were actions to recover moneys alleged to have been received by defendant, John H. Moore, for tolls while in the employ of plaintiff as ferry master, and to have been converted by him and invested in real estate, or deposited in his own name and in the name of his mother,, in various savings banks, who were made defendants. The actions were consolidated and tried together. Plaintiff’s evidence was to the effect that the father of defendant, John H. Moore, was a day laborer, his mother a washerwoman, and, up to the death of the former, they were apparently in straitened circumstances.…

1Opinion of the Court

Earl, J.,

reads for reversal of order of General Term and affirmance of judgment of Special Term.

All concur.

Judgment accordingly.

2Cited by30 opinions

  1. Bone v. HayesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1908
  2. People v. . BriggsNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
  3. In re LeslieDistrict Court, N.D. New York · 1903
  4. Leask v. HoaglandNew York Supreme Court · 1909
  5. McGuire v. Hartford Fire InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896

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