Guilfoyle v. Seeman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
"Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary E. Guilfoyle, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of November, 1896, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The action is brought for the conversion of a store of goods in Englewood, New Jersey, belonging to the plaintiff. The allegation is that the defendants, by their agent, the sheriff of the county of Bergen, New Jersey, without service of any papers, or other process of law, on the 7th of September, 1893, under pretext of an alleged attachment of $600 in favor of the defendants against one Langdon, unlawfully trespassed upon and took possession of a grocery business, including a stock of goods, furniture, fixtures, etc., which were then in the actual possession of the plaintiff, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Welsh v. . CochranNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
3Cited by2 opinions
- Ide v. FinnAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1921
- Barber v. DewesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905