Mendelsohn v. R. Simpson & Co.

The action is for replevin which, to the extent that it concerns the appellant, is for the recovery of four pieces of jewelry, each of which is the subject of a separate cause of action covered by the third, fourth, fifth and sixth causes of action of the complaint.

These four pieces of jewelry had been intrusted for sale to Mrs. Margaret Boyle, a resident of Washington, D. C., by one Jack Blauweiss, a jewelry broker of New York City, who had secured them for that purpose from the plaintiff. Instead of selling the jewelry Mrs. Boyle first pledged it with George D. Horning, Inc., a firm of…