J. H. Lichtenstein & Co. v. Fargo
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Few York, seventh district, borough of Manhattan, rendered in favor of the plaintiff after a trial by the court without a jury.
1Per curiam
Defendant is president of an unincorporated association operating a fast freight line. Plaintiff shipped two cases marked “ millinery goods,” valued by them *150lat $106.77, to Winona, Minn., on December 10, 1906. The consignee refused to receive them. By some unexplained delay, notice of their return was not mailed to plaintiff until March 19, 1907. The actual contents of the cases were mainly feminine straw hats, not trimmed. Ho physical injury to the goods was shown, hut one of the plaintiffs testified that the delay caused a loss of ninety per cent, in value, owing to change in the prevailing…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wolfe v. WeirAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1908
3Cited by2 opinions
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