Howe v. Oyer
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from Cattaraugus county court. Action by Wilson H. Howe against Perry Oyer for the wrongful conversion-of chattels, instituted before a j ustice, where judgment was rendered for plaintiff. Defendant appealed to the county court, which reversed the judgment,, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
The alleged cause of action was that the defendant wrongfully took and converted to his own use certain articles of personal property of the plaintiff. This was denied by the answer of the defendant, who alleged, by way of justification, that he was a constable, and took the property into his possession by virtue of a requisition in an action to recover the possession of it; and it appeared that in an action brought in a justice’s court by Haney P. Howe against Wilson H. Howe, (the plaintiff herein,) to recover certain chattels embracing those in question, a requisition, founded upon the…
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