McGuire v. Wanamaker

Appeal by permission from an order of the Appellate Term, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, in favor of respondents, in an action to recover a fur coat and muff from defendant John Wanamaker New York, where the articles had been stored by a sister of the plaintiff’s assignor. Defendant Wanamaker inter-pleaded the administrator of the individual from whom it accepted the articles for storage. Judgment for the interpleaded defendant affirmed, with costs. Public policy precludes giving effect to the attempted gift causa mortis under the…