Richman v. Active Vans Moving & Storage Co.

Defendant Alita Lee Richman moves to vacate a requisition caused to be issued by the plaintiff, her husband, pursuant to which the Sheriff of New York City, Kings County division, seized all her household furniture and personal effects. In the alternative she seeks an order that the Sheriff be directed to impound these chattels during the pendency of the action instead of delivering them to the plaintiff.

She tells a harrowing tale of the plaintiff’s having intercepted a moving company which she had hired to move her belongings to a new house, prevailed upon it to deliver the van loads to a…