Valentine v. . Long Island R.R. Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supremo Court in the second judicial department, entered March 10, 1905, reversing a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a verdict directed by the court and granting a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
This action was brought to recover the value of about one hundred and twenty'tons of iron rails, fish-plates, bolts, spikes, etc., of which the plaintiff claimed to be the owner and which he alleged had been converted by the defendant. The evidence tended to show that in the latter part of the year 1899 the plaintiff applied to the station agent of the defendant at Woodsburg, near Cedarhurst, for cars and rate for shipping rails from that station to New York. The agent was unable to give the desired information, but subsequently obtained the rate and cars from a superior officer, and a few…
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