Veneruso v. Spear & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Spear & Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 13th day of January, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury for $750, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same dayj denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, P. J. :
The defendant sent a two-horse delivery wagon, with a driver, helper and collector, to a house.in Brooklyn, to collect a bill owing to it for furniture, purchased by a former resident of the house. They arrived at the house and the helper and collector went in and demanded the payment of the amount due on the bill or the return of the furniture from the plaintiff who was then in possession of the house. The collector, after plaintiff stated that the person who had purchased the furniture had moved away and no longer lived there, claimed that a buffet, in the room wherein they…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Weinstein v. Singer Manufacturing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907