Briggs v. . Boyd

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The exception taken by the defendants' counsel to the legal conclusion of the referee, that the plaintiffs were entitled to recover of the defendants the sum of $532.62, raises the question whether the plaintiffs were entitled to recover this entire sum, and, if not so entitled, the General Term committed no error in reversing the judgment and ordering a new trial.

The defendants had in their hands a quantity of whisky belonging to the plaintiffs, which the…