Latimer v. Wheeler
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the city court of Brooklyn. The action was brought for the recovery and delivery of personal property. The jury found a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and assessed the value of the property at $277.95. Judgment being entered for that sum, with interest and costs, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Brown, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in the city court of Brooklyn. The action was brought for the recovery and delivery of personal property which originally belonged to one Benjamin Rathbun, proprietor of the Globe Hotel, Brooklyn. The parties, plaintiff and *486defendant, were each of them, mortgagees of the property in dispute. The mortgage of the plaintiff was executed by Bath-bun in January, 1856, and that of the defendant on the 4th day of February, 1856. Both were bona fide made to secure just debts, and both were duly filed in the office of the register of…
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