Niiya v. Goto

VALLÉE, J.

Appeal by defendant from an order granting a new trial after judgment for defendant in an action for the recovery of personal property. The cause was tried by the court sitting without a jury. The order was made on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the decision.

Prior to October 1953 the property in question, consisting of furniture and furnishings, belonged to plaintiff. She kept it in a small apartment at 3001 Ganahl Street in Los Angeles, where she was living. About October 1, 1953, she told defendant she was going to move to her parents’ residence and place…