Fitchard v. Doheny
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Florence E. Fitchard, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of .the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 20th day of July, 1903, upon the report of a referee, dismissing the complaint upon the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The judgment should be reversed and a new trial granted before another referee, with costs to appellant to abide event.
*10The action was brought to recover'damages for the conversion of twenty bales of hops of the value of $1,000.
The hops were originally the property of the plaintiff; about November 1, 1892, they were sold and delivered to the Greenway Brewing Company, and while in the possession of that company they were levied upon by the sheriff of Onondaga county by virtue of an execution issued upon a judgment against the company in favor of the estate of Lucius Gleason, and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Morris v. . TalcottNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
- Harrisburg Pipe Bending Co. v. WelshAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898