Webb v. New Haven Theatre Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a trustee in bankruptcy to recover damages for the alleged conversion of an electrical apparatus in an opera house or theatre, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Gager, J.; the jury returned a verdict for the defendant, by direction of the court, and from the judgment thereon the plaintiff appealed. No error.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The plaintiff, trustee of a bankrupt
estate, claiming that certain articles of electrical equipment, which the bankrupt had installed in the defendant’s theatre while a lessee thereof, were personal property belonging to the bankrupt estate, demanded the same of the defendant, and, the latter having refused to deliver them, brought this action in the nature of trover to recover damages for their conversion. The court, holding that the articles were fixtures attached to the freehold, directed a verdict for the defendant. The main question raised by the appeal is whether the verdict was properly…
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