Andrews v. Shattuck

By the Court,

Brown, J.

The plaintiff recovered a verdict in this action for the sum of $5000, the value of the goods claimed in the complaint, and for $281.96 damages, at the Kings circuit before Mr. Justice Lott, which was afterwards set aside at the special term, on motion of the defendant, and thereupon the plaintiff appealed.

The action is brought to recover the possession of certain bundles of telegraph wire shipped from London, by the plaintiff, to one Sherman Webster, in New York, in October, 1856. The defendant claimed the property as owner, by purchase from Webster on credit. The title…