Dale v. Brinckerhoff
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the general term of the Marine Court of the city of New York, reversing a judgment of that court, in favor of the plaintiff, entered on the verdict of a jury, and directing a new trial. The action was brought by the plaintiff, Dale, to recover damages for the conversion of certain machinery left by him in the gratuitous custody of the defendants, at their store, in New Yoik city, with their permission.
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Appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the general term of the Marine Court of the city of New York, reversing a judgment of that court, in favor of the plaintiff, entered on the verdict of a jury, and directing a new trial. The action was brought by the plaintiff, Dale, to recover damages for the conversion of certain machinery left by him in the gratuitous custody of the defendants, at their store, in New Yoik city, with their permission. Some time after the machinery was placed there, and during the absence of the plaintiff from the city, the defendants, without notice to plaintiff, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Charles P. Daly, Chief Justice.
There was no ground *46for disturbing this judgment. If the defendants, without authority, sold the plaintiff’s machine, it amounted to a conversion. They were gratuitous bailees. It was placed in the defendants’ store in August, 1872, the defendants having told the plaintiff that he might bring the machine there; that they would give it room, and would not charge him any rent for it. If they wished to terminate this bailment, the proper course was to notify him, and if he did not, within a reasonable time take it away, or if he could not, after reasonable inquiry,…
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